The Olympian from Olympia, Washington • 19

The Olympian FRIDAY November 15 1991 Obituaries 2 Washington state 4 Classified 4-8 um Sound rrs CLOSER: The Yes votes still lead in Initiative 120 but its getting closer 4 AWARD UPHELD: A $25'million award to a Yelm family has been upheld by the courts 4 Editor: Mindy Chambers 754-5423 Tanglewilde considers annexation Although the construction work to expand the 1-5 corridor between Lacey and working on landscaping projects like this one near the Olympia brewery Stovt Bloom Th Olympian Tumwater is completed crews are still 8 years later the work is done AJYL Report County to consider no shooting zone Thurston County commissioners on Monday will further discuss a proposal to establish a no-shooting zone at the Holiday Valley neighborhood No public testimony will be taken during the work session in Room 280 Building 1 Thurston County Courthouse 2000 Lakeridge Drive SW Olympia The session begins at 5:30 pm A no-shooting zone would ban recreational uses of firearms Residents submitted a petition seeking the ban Holiday Valley is located west of Oyster Bay Road north of Highway 101 School seeks volunteers for two testing programs The University of Washington is looking for volunteers to test a new birth control method and a new treatment for osteoporosis Researchers are looking for couples in stable relationships to test a possible new male contraceptive that involves weekly injections of the hormone testosterone Volunteers will be paid for their participation Interested couples can call Elaine at 324-2282 The UW Medical Center is also looking for women between 40 and 75 years old who are at least one year past menopause to test the effectiveness of a new drug to prevent bone fractures All participants will be given a free health screening dietary evaluation bone-density measurements at ttfe hip wrist and spine and the latest information on the treatment of established osteoporosis Women interested in participating can leave a message at 548-4243 Intercity Transit to hold public comment on budget The public will have a second chance to comment on Intercity Transit's draft $946 million operating budget for 1992 Saturday Public comment will be taken at 9 am during a special meeting of the Transit Authoirty at the headquarters 526 Pattison Street The draft budget calls for a fare increase in April The amount that increase will be considered by the Authority in January The hearing will also address the proposed $46 million 1992 capital budget and $317000 of facility maintenance projects Copies of the proposed budget are available at Intercity Transit headquarters between 8 am and 5 pm weekdays or by calling 786-8585 In other business the Authority will consider Appointments to the Accessible Services Advisory Committee Preliminary drawings of Intercity proposed new bus stop sign design The company has about 800 bus stop signs that will need to be replaced over the next year said Susan Hanson Intercity Transit spokeswoman Hie proposed new signs are two-sided and would be marked with the route number of the bus that stops there Mississippi man to head state European trade office The head of trade office in Europe is the first director of Washington's newly opened European trade office the office announced Thursday Steven A Nadeau a US citizen with 16 years experience in the European Community will begin his new job directing the Paris-based office immediately Gov Booth office said He will be paid $87000 a year The announcement came as Gardner welcomed a crowd of 150 French government and business officials to a reception to officially open the new office created by the 1991 Legislature with a two-year appropriation of $500000 Another $100000 each is coming from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma Tne office will work to foster trade between Washington and Europe Olympian staff news sendees Praise: Local politicians are happy with the project C2 Final landscaping is all that remains to be done on the 79-mile stretch of freeway from Lacey to Tumwater By Mike Oakland The Olympian It took four years or less to fight and end the Civil War World War I the Korean War and World War II It took twice that long more than eight years to widen Interstate 5 through Olympia Lacey and Tumwater And in the words of Olympia resident Dale Guggenmos the 1-5 construction maze is over" Thursday was a day for celebration -a day for politicians and state Department of Transportation officials to gather in the bright sunshine at Turn-water Historial Park where they praised one another and held aloft a sign declaring the 79-mile widening project complete Substantial landscaping work remains The possibility that a park-pool levy might go bust has some residents giving Lacey the come-hither look By Mike Oakland The Olympian With the $60000 levy to operate the swimming pool and seven-acre park in the Tanglewilde development hanging on the count of absentee ballots some community residents are beginning to talk about annexation to the city of Lacey In the not-so-distant past such talk would have ignited a war in the Tangle' wilde community east of Lacey On the south side of Martin Way Tanglewilde which includes nearly 500 homes was the first mqjor planned community development outside the cor- Krate city limits of Lacey Olympia and imwater It was begun in the late 1950s by A1 Thompson and many early residents bitterly rejected every attempt at courtship by Lacey A dunging community Today's Tanglewilde is a community in transition Many residents especially the newcomers are beginning to talk about the benefits of urban services sewer water police protection land use controls and turning the park and commercial-sized pool over to tne city know there is a constituency out there that would fight annexation like said David Burns president of the Tanglewilde Recreation Center board we have a number of new people in the neighborhood now who have the same concerns about previous city The annexation issue was raised at the last community meeting attended by about 10 percent of the property owners It was agreed that more research would be done on the question consensus was let's look into it" Burns said we are talking about the possibility of shutting down the pool and ending the maintenance of the park time to look at options I think annexation is an he said What would cost? For many the issue will boil down to how much it will cost them personalty Burns said initial research shows that Tanglewilde residents on city water might save money on their tax bill through an-1 nexation but enjoy increased service Those on the Public Utility District water system likely would pay slightly more if the area was annexed Burns said next for levy? The immediate concern is focused on the fate of the parks and recreation levy The outcome won't be known until next Wednesday's count of 22 questioned ballots and any absentee ballots that arrive with a postmark before midnight Tuesday Nov 5 As it stands the levy has a 599 percent majority But it takes 60 percent favorable vote to pass a lew Another two votes would mean the difference between defeat and passage said to Auditor Sam Reed the folks that have been involved in this campaign are pretty depressed" Burns admitted thought this was going to be the first time we were going to pass the levy in November" The Tanglewilde community has a history of defeating the levy in November but passing it the following spring If the issue fails next spring Burns said options include closing the pool and ending park maintenance or annexing to Lacey and allowing the city to operate both facilities Forty percent of the voters cast ballots against the levy which would assess homeowners $123 per $1000 of assessed valuation or $123 for a $100000 home The $60000 raised through the levy would operate the park and pool for two years Bums said are folks who vote against any taxes no matter what those taxes go for Bums said folks are not as interested in maintaining a high-class neighborhood I just don't know any other way of saying it Blood donors needed at two donation sites Volunteer blood donors are needed for two blood drives in Olympia next week The Puget Sound Blood Center will be accepting blood on: Wednesday at the the Department of Social and Health Services Office of Safety and Risk Assessment from 9 am to 3 pm Friday at Tumwater High School 700 Israel Road 8:30 am to 2:30 pm For more information contact the blood center at 292-6500 the back for their cooperation praising the contractors for their good work ana lauding transportation employees for designing ana constructing most beautiful stretch of freeway in the it was retired district engineer Art Smelser who thanked traveling public" patience was appreciated" Smelser said But Demich warned South Sound residents that their patience will be tested anew when the Department of Transportation begins widening Interstate 101 from Capitol Lake to tne Black Lake Boulevard exit hope to be slowing you down in that area within a Demich joked That $25 million project is on the design board and should be put out to bid next fall The project includes widening the twin Percival Creek bridges to four lanes widening of 24 miles of Highway 101 and creating a two-lane urban interchange at Black Lake Actual construction likely will start in the spring erf 1993 girlfriend left motion from the prosecution to ban any mention of pending paternity action The woman gave birth to a boy last summer and the civil action seeks to establish the fatherhood of the child Pejsa a divorced father of three lost a six-month-old son Donald Pejsa III to crib death in the early 1980s his mother testified Thursday slumped down he started crying" Alice Pejsa said in tears describing his October 1990 visit to her home was not the same told me that (the ex-girlfriend) had gone back to her husband I told him this the end of life It shouldn't tear you up felt she'd taken his baby too He said 'I've lost again just like losing Joey all over again Pejsa resigned as a corrections officer from McNeil Island Correctional Center in early 1990 after a few years on the job He dated the woman for three months while she and her husband were separated in mid-1990 The trial will resume Monday at 9:30 am Mom: Pejsa very upset when to be done along the freeway from the Capitol Lake interchange to Airdustrial Way but northbound and southbound motorists should not be inconvenienced that work said District Engineer ary Demich Project highlights include: $164 million spent to widen the freeway from three to four lanes with 90 percent of the funds coming from the federal highways program Laying of 424000 tons of asphalt Construction of 14 new on- and offramps Improvements to 25 existing ramps Reconstruction or replacement of 34 bridges Construction of 35 miles of bike paths alongside the freeway While the politicians at Thursday's ceremony were patting each other on Donald Pejsa Jr As he appeared in police booking photograph County police said The defendant has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to charges of rape and kidnapping filed in connection with the Feb 4 abduction He pleaded innocent to burglary and possession of stolen property (a loaded handgun) in connection with a seven-hour standoff with police on Feb 22-23 at the couple's apartment 220 Israel Road The husband and wife were not home at the time Before the jury trial began last week Judge Daniel Berschauer granted a The mother testified that when the woman ended the relationship it brought back painful memories of when his son died of crib death in the 1980s By Armando Machado The Olympian The mother of rape-kidnapping defendant Donald Pejsa Jr testified Thursday that her son was very upset and de- Alice Pejsa said in Thurston County Superior Court that she talked about ft with Pejsa when he visited her Pierce County home in mid-October of last year Pejsa 30 of Tacoma is accused of kidnapping his ex-girlfriend and her husband at knifepoint from the Tumwater apartment Feb 4 and then raping the woman who was about five months pregnant at the time The couple both in their 30s escaped from Pejsa in Yakima Burden of debt is topic of lecture at university TACOMA Sotiety of will be the topic of a lecture at The University of Puget Sound at Tacoma Nov 20 at 8 pm One of the most disturbing trends in recent economic history has been the sudden and dramatic increase in the role that debt plays in our lives says Michael Veseth professor of economics who will give the lecture Veseth is the author of many books the most recent being of Debt" The lecture will be in Kilworth Chapel and free and open to the public For information call 756-3148 Around South Sound Eikenberry off and running Pearl Harbor survivors families getting medals Pearl Harbor commemorative medals will be presented Saturday Nov 23 to all survivors and next-of-kin in the area who have received confirmation that they are entitled to them The medals will be presented by the Olympic Peninsula chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association at 11 am at the Navy and Marine Corps training center 11th Street and Alexander in Tacoma For information call Henry Long at 491-2122 stress education at all levels health care and crime-fighting Before Gov Booth surprise decision last month to retire from public life Eike-nberry 59 had been planning to run for re-election He said Thursday he was to bad out" of a post he has eqjoyed enormously but that he was intrigued by the governor's office and the power to create change The Associated Press SEATTLE Attorney General Ken Eikenberry an avid runner sprinted into the crowded marathon race for governor on Thursday The conservative Republican a former FBI agent prosecutor state lawmaker state GOP chairman and three-term attorney general said he'd be a penny-pinching foe of taxes crime and red tape as governor He said his campaign will.