Daily Hampshire Gazette du lieu suivant : Northampton, Massachusetts • 1

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V- r-r- rp- jy- la llie news Dealingwlth diabetes New technology helps living with the disease Face The lasting images of fame unset Inaugural festivities on tap in Northampton A3 Amherst uses traps to kill beavers near reservoir UYUGC1 Established 1786 VOLUME 214 NOl 86 NORTHAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS TUESDAY DECEM8ER 14 1999 HOME DELIVER? 586-1925 28 RAGES 50 CENTS Programs Ho ho ho targets ranks Signing bonus part of program By THEO EMERY Staff Writer NORTHAMPTON In a twin effort to prevent staff shortfalls and bring new workers to the nursing fieldThe Cooley Dickinson Hospital is boosting nurse levels and using signing bonuses to attract workers for difficultrto-fill shifts The move to solidify nursing ranks at the 113-year-old hospital conies at a time of mounting concern over safe staffing levels at health care facilities nationwide as well as the of nurses who are expected to begin retiring en masse within the next 10 to 15 years Those concerns increasingly have been sounded nationwide The state of California for example recently passed legislation mandating minimum staffing levels among health care providers Here in Massachusetts this budget calls for formation of a commission to examine the issue of staffing levels statewide In addition strict new legal protections are on the bods for health care who bring attention to unsafe conditions and poor care in their workplaces Locally for the last several years See NURSEBack of section homeless get grants By MARY CAREY Staff Writer Programs to help young people who are leaving foster care and homeless people have received an $880456 financial boost from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development US Reps Richard Neal D-Springfield and John Olver D-Amherst announced the grants Monday The funding goes to: Business Incubator Project located in Florence which works with homeless men and women to start businesses $115883 TH County Transition to Wbrk sponsored by foe Center for Human Development in Amherst $353559 Hie largest appropriation also for homeless services FrankhnHampshire County Permanent Housing project $96600 and the Housing Mobile Outreach Team $224070 Both of these programs are overseen by ServiceNet Inc See FUNDSBack of section Bosnian Serb' gets 40 years -THE HAGUE Netherlands (AP) The Yugoslav war -crimes tribunal tod ay sen- -tenced a Bosnian Serb to 40 years in' prison the toughest punishment handed down so far by the 6-year-old UJf court Goran Jelisic 31 had been found guilty on Oct 19 of 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed while he was a shift commander at foe notorious Luka prison camp in northern Bosnia Jelisic a former form mechanic who prosecutors said was responsible for the deaths of dozens of prisoners had pleaded guilty and acknowledged before the court that he went by the nickname in reference to Hitler crimes which you Goran Jelisic have committed have shocked the con- science of the presiding judge Claude Jorda of France said after reading out the names of the victims Jelisic stood silently in the dock as the sentence was read The war crimes and crimes against Santana Henley age five months looks up at Santa Clans during the children he)d at the Hotel Northampton Monday She is the daughter Rotary Club's Christmas party for of Claudelle Henley of Amherst A- we are fund to over 10 years The 27-member dub is one cl dozens of local organizations and groups that contribute to the toy fund each year donating money raised through such fundraisers as community suppers chicken barbecues raffles and booths at community tors support our Clark said He said the yearly donation also recognizes the growing need of many area families the homeless shelters are overcrowded why we doubled our donation to $100 We felt it was the thing to he said The 63-year-old Northampton Lions Club also upped its donation this year from $225 to $250 said Northampton chib treasurer Stanley Kewski See TOY FUNDSee Rage B2 provide toysto the needy children That goal is more chat lenging this yeai- the 66th because it has added four southern Franklin County towns Sunderland Whately Shutesbury and Leverett to the list of communities it serves Last year the fund distributed $70960 in tiie tom of vouchers to 862 families The aid is offered to children whose eligibility has been verified by Aid fc Family Service That agency and the Gazette cover all costs of the drive freeing up all donations to be used to buy presents for children Fbunded in 1982 the Pelham Lions Club has been making a donation to the toy See WARBack of section Radio station on air By PHYLLIS LEHRER Staff Writer The start of the annual Sydney Smith Toy Find drive was still a week away when Pelham Lions Club President Donald Clark arrived at the Amherst office with a $100 check in his hand The dub had a good reasonTor getting its annual contribution to the toy fund early Clark said -The donation is the young people to get toys We know how blessed we are' who have things every day and they have he said are avid believers in supporting this We plan on it every The Sidney Smith Toy Rind hopes to garner the support of similar groups as well as businesses and individuals to Sweepstakes seniors from srams WASHINGTON (AP) President Clinton has signed into law a measure designed to protect people especially the elderly from sweepstakes scams saying often mailing and sweepstakes practices seem designed to The Deceptive Mail Prevention and Enforcement Act bars sponsors from implying that buying products can increase chances of winning big prizes! legislation will protect Americans against those who use sweepstakes and mailings to deceive and exploit the Clinton said Monday will establish standards for sweepstakes mailing skill contests and facsimile The bill was among dozens that cleared Congress on the last day of the 1999 session The new law requires sweepstakes sponsors to display messages prominently that no purchase is required It also bars sweepstakes mailings from telling recipients that -they have won a prize unless they actualfy have won something In addition it imposes millkm-doDar fines on sweepstakes companies that violate the law and gives the UU Postal Service new authority to stop mailings quickly 1 EPA to curb rainwater in communities BOSTON (AP) The biggest threat to water quality is neither factory-waste nor untreated municipal sewage but the rain that falls from the sky and flows into rivers streams lakes and harbors To clean up pollution caused by stormwater runoff the EPA has announced it will require communities of more than 10000 residents to get i stormwater system permits by 2003 Many of the 189 cities anil towns with populations over 10000 may he surprised to learn they will have to eliminate illegal hookups to municipal stormwater systems and reduce the oil grease silt and animal waste on their roads before it overflows into their water- ways vv Some may even have to build new stormwater -systems think a lot of them know said Arieen O'Donnell assistant '3fS Iff See RAINBack of section WEATHER This afternoon rain heavy at times high in the upper 30s northeast wind increasing to 10-20 mph Tonight brisk with rain heavy at times perhaps mixing with or changing to sleet Precipitation tapering to drizzle around midnight Low around 35 Wednesday cloudy high 35-40 EXTENDED FORECAST MBE II Amherst 83 Monis 82 'Aik CS NalioiWItarid A5 AT Norttamplon AS ComicRSSwoni OS OMuaries 82 Ctaffied 8487 Ragion 81 -EHlumpWliBiiiini 84 SouBiHafley 85 (sgds ''I'jCT Sports 81-04 living 81-C3 TV Kings 88 24-H0UR NEWS INFORMATION BazsttsUas After 15 years of struggle WEIB offers relaxing sound By JUDSON BROWN Staff Writer NORTHAMPTON The lighted sign for the second radio station WEIB 1068 FM glows at the intersection of King Street and Damon Road The sign hangs behind the date glass wall of a section of the Webber and Grinnell Insurance Agency Inc building that mice was the Flavoriand ice cream shop and before that the Seaitest Ice Cream Co warehouse Some motorists stuck at the intersection during rush hours may be tuned into and shilling out to new as the annopneer calls the station which officially was launched this summer: What WEIB promotes as its "cutting edge of music is a format described fay the station's newiy hired program director Scott Harris as sdult When on the air Harris a former program director and disc jockey at i in Springfield invites his listeners hi a liquid baritone voice to kick bad: and relax and forget the in their lives WEIB aims to deliver a soothing sound because work days are tough Harris says He thinks people will time into mix 'of Gospel smooth jazz Motown and other kinds of low-key music as a pleasant background whiles See RADIQSee-Pnge B2 -V'-j'-: -a J' 1 -6 GORDON DANIELS Scott Harris program director and on-air personality on the new radio station WEIB is announcing the weather report on a recent morning broadcast A wi A.