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COMMUNITY CALENDAR PUBLIC MEETINGS MONDAY •Athens Area Schools, 7'p.m., East Leroy Elementary. • Albion City Council, 7 p.m.. City Hall. • . Battle Creek Board of Education, 7 p.m., Willard library. • Bellevue Village Council, 7 p.m., Village Hall. • Climax-Scotts Board of Education, 7 p.m., Middle School. • Marshall City Council, 7 p.m.. City Hall. • • Homer Village Council, 7 p.m. Municipal Building. • Union City Board of Education, 7 p.m., high school library. • Bellevue Board of Education, 7:30 p.m.. Middle School. • Hastings Board of Education, 7:30 p.m.. Junior High School. • Colon Board of Education. 7:30 p.m.. High School. • Galesburg City Council, 7:30 p.m.. City Hall. • Galesburg-Augusta Board of Education, 7 p.m.. Primary Building, Augusta • Gull Lake Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., Ryan Intermediate School. • Lakeview Board of Education, 7:30 p.m., Board Room at Territorial School. • Springfield City Council, 7:30 p.m.. City Hall, 601 Avenue A • Homer Board of Education, 8 p.m.. High School. SELF-HELP GROUPS • Domestic Violence Group, presented by Domestic Violence Treatment Program at Fieldstone Center, meets once a week for 24 weeks. Call 966-7121 or 1-800-582- 1900 exL 5057 to register. • \ ' • HEALTH • Battle Creek Health System, ; blood-pressure screening, Wellness Clinic, 9 to 11 a.m. Monday and j Friday. • Lakeview Square mall walk, 6:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Blood pres- sure screening offered from 7 to i 8:30 a-m. • Asthma education classes, ongoing classes, sponsored by Battle Creek Health System. Call Jan Burdinck at 966-8136. SPECIAL INTERESTS • Interaction of Kalamazoo Inc. (for single adults), 7:30 p.m. to- day, People's Church, 1758 N. 10th • St, Kalamazoo. Call Sandy 323-2035. • Michigan Singles International Ltd. dance, 8 p.m. today to 2 a.m. Saturday, PJ's, 310 S. Mechanic St, Jackson, and 8 p.m. Saturday to 2 a.m. Sunday, Mason Hills Golf Club, Tomlinson Road, Mason. Admission $6. • Buddhist Meditation and Study Group, call 962-6741. • WOMEN'S GROUPS i v • Batde Creek Newcomers, meet other women who are new in town at monthly meetings, informal coffees, mom-n-tot group, crafts, etc. Also couple events on week- ends. Call 964-4501. •€ TO SUBMIT INFORMATION Please send items to Community Calendar, 155 W. Van Buren St, Battle Creek 49017-3093. Or, fax them to us at 964-0299. Please in- clude your name and phone number. CLARIFICATION • The Kalamazoo-Battle Creek American Society for Quality Control will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Kalamazoo Valley Community College Arcadia Creek Commons. SETTING IT STRAIGHT • Counting Crows will perform Sunday at Wings Stadium. Because of incorrect information given to the Enquirer, the wrong day ap- peared in an article in the WOW section Thursday. • A Page 1A story Thursday j on a fetal drive-by shooting was I missing a few lines. The paragraph, which jumped from Page 1A to 4A, should have read: The sound of shots and sirens was replaced by the wails of a woman who contin- ued to scream and flail her arms as friends and family members re- strained her. Nearby, rescuers pumped the victim's chest as they loaded him into a waiting ambu- lance." The Battle Creek Enquirer cor- rects errors of fact To report an er- ror, call 9660674. HOW TO REACH US Have a story tip or Idea? Here's ho* ie rtodi us 24 hoots a inf. • Reader berime: 9664)681 • fax: 964-0299 ; • Great lakes Free-Net: Leave a message m the Battle Creek Enquirer conference area. M • I mA [email protected] It FRIDAY, MARCH 1 4 , 1 9 9 7 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER Warrant sought in drive-by 'i. V v Police say they have a suspect, incident not gang related TRACE CHRISTENSON The Enquirer A warrant will be sought today for at least one person believed to be in- volved in Wednesday's drive-by shoot- ing death of a Battle Creek man. "We have developed a suspect and we are submitting a request for a warrant (today)," Detective Sgt. Carter Bright, supervisor of the Battle Creek Police Department's Detective Bureau,. said late Thursday. Quincy Webb, 22, was killed with a single shot to the head in what witnesses said was part of a bar- rage of gunfire about 3:10 p.m. Wednesday. Webb was killed while he stood with a small group of young men near Bernardo Place and Hubbard Street Bright said that group exchanged gestures and words with .two men in a passing car. The car turned around and at least one of the men inside opened fire on the group. Witnesses told police at least 15 shots were fired and one of the men standing in the street may have fired back. "We don't have a gun near (Webb's) body and we just aren't sure if anyone was shooting back," Bright said. Bright said police believe they know how many shots were fired and what kind of guns were used, but he declined to release that in- formation. Acting on a tip, police searched an apartment Thursday on Riverside Drive but did not find the suspect or other evidence con- nected to the shooting, Bright said. "We had a tip that the suspect was in the house, but there wasn't anyone there," Bright said. Police still are looking for the car driven by the two men. PUT ON A WINNING FACE r^. > •j SCOn ERSKINE/THE ENQUIRER Jacrystal Sims, 7, of Albion, gets a Wildcat paw painted on her face by Renita Craig, also of Albion, during half-time of Thursday's Class B regional game between Albion and Gull Lake. Albion beat Gull Lake, 83-64. For the complete story, see page IB. And investigators are trying to de- termine the motive for the shooting. Bright said some of the partici- pants were not from Battle Cre£k.! "We just don't have much on % the motive," he said. "There was sopi? type of gestures made and some words exchanged." * He said he did not believe-the shooting was gang related. .. - Police talked to several witnesses Thursday but are still seeking in- formation from people who might have seen the shooting. Woman disappears from store - v Associated Press - • -4 , 11 • : H | #• KALAMAZOO - Police say they're looking at videotape from Meijer store cameras for any clues to the,di3- appearance of an 1 18-year-old col- lege student HAVE YOU linda Hansen SEEN HER? li , kept the bed- • room light on Anyone witti when she left her infonnation can Kalamazoo mo- call Kdomazoo bile home police delect Monday night for at 616-337- a trip to a Meijer 8139 or 616- store in Oshtemo 337-8140 of Township. She ^dif. . hasn't been seen since then. , "We hope it's something crazy, and she just walks through the doorS. Hansen's mother. Dee Hansen of Caldonia, said. "But we don't expert that... (We have) the sense that soroe^ one's done something with her." , .. Hansen is a student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and liv^s with her sister, Paula. ; , "There's no indication that she's been despondent" Sgt Gary Hamme], "a Kalamazoo police detective, said' Thursday. "Everything's been on the up and up. This is very out of character for her." . - , •. ^ Hansen was driving a 1988 Dodj^e. Caravan with wood grain on the sides and Michigan license plate 553-PXB. . The minivan has a Kent County Airport sticker on the windshield. - . She is white, 5 feet 6 inches and 120 pounds. Ms. Hansen, who has long , brown hair and brown eyes, was wear- ing a thigh-length black coat, beige • cotton pants and black tennis shoesC, Telefile makes tax time a bit easier Associated Press This year, over 935,000 Michigan taxpayers will be able to use a touch-tone phone to Telefile their tax return. Telefile is paper- less, but the special Telefile tax package, received in the mail, must be used. It is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. After the tax- payer provides requested income information TeleFile will compute the tax and announce the amount of the refund or the amount of ad- ditional tax due. Refunds should be received in about three weeks. If there is a balance due, the taxpayer has until April 15 to send the money to the IRS. The Telefile call is completed with a confirmation number the taxpayer can se if there are any subsequent questions. To be eligible for Telefile, a tax- payer must receive the special 1040TEL tax booklet in the mail and meet the following conditions: • Be single or married with no dependents; • Have taxable income of less than $50,000; • Be at the same address as last year. Taxpayers who lose or discard the Telefile tax package will have to call the IRS or visit an office or library to get a standard paper tax form. Murder testimony continues Victim had been previously robbed TRACE CHRISTENSON The Enquirer A week before Robert Rogers was robbed and murdered, police had in- vestigated a burglary at his home. The burglary was just one of many at the house on Raymond Road, police testified Thursday. Officer Gene Adkins of the Emmett Township Department of Public Safety, was the first officer to arrive at Rogers' home the afternoon of April 26 and found a rear sliding glass door smashed. When Adkins and another officer walked in, they found Rogers' badly beaten body on the floor. Adkins recognized the man be- cause he had been at the house a week before to investigate a burglary. He testified Thursday that the 80-year- old man had been robbed and beaten before. Testimony came during the second day of the preliminary examination for Sharon Zachary, 31, charged with murder, felony murder and armed robbery in Rogers' death. Testimony is expected to end today and Judge Samuel Durham will be asked by Assistant Prosecutor David Wallace to send the case to trial. Zachary, who lived next door to Rogers and had been caring for him, was named the beneficiary in his will five months before the murder. After Rogers was killed, police found $133,000 in cash hidden in the house. Several witnesses have testi- fied that he usually carried large sums of cash. On Wednesday, a Michigan State Police crime laboratory technician testified he found Zachary's thumb print on Rogers belt . ." Another technician, Amy Michaud,-/ said Zachary's shoe print was found.. on the broken glass from the sliding- door. Michaud said one impression • oft the glass was from the left tennis shoe /; that Zachary gave police. Several^ other impressions were from shoes ' similar to the tennis shoes. Michaud also believes a pipe found' in a pond behind the house was th^; murder weapon. But during questioning by Defense*; Attorney John Hofman, Michaud said she found several other footwear im- . pressions on glass and paper in thf. . house that were not identified. ; And she said there is no way to.de 1 termine the age of the footprints. Officials from Comerica Bank testi- fied that Zachary withdrew $10,645 | from Rogers' account, using her I power of attorney, and had a check for ; $3,675 prepared for a car dealer, and ; one for $5,700 written to her. NEIGHBORS PLUS •• w < Film series to follow path of Lewis and Clark Step back into the history of the American West on Saturday when Kingman Museum's Wildlife Travel and Adventure Film/Lecture Series pre- sents The Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1803-1806. Film maker Robin Williams will present his pro- gram at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at W.K. Kellogg Auditorium. After the acquisition of Louisiana in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson planned an expedition to discover the course and source of the Missouri River and thereby find the most convenient water route to the Pacific Ocean. Jefferson's pri- STEVE SMii vate secretary, Capt. Meriwether Lewis, and Capt. William Clark were placed in command of the en- deavor. Saturday's program will follow the expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-05, traveling the Missouri, Snake and Columbia rivers. The film begins in St Louis and ends at the Pacific Ocean near Astoria, Ore. The audience also will get to know the various tribes of Indians along the route. Williams has appeared with the National Geographic Society lec- ture series for more than 20 years. His specialty is to document the great travelers of history. Admission to the series is by Kingman Museum membership or by single admissions at the door: $3.50 for adults and $1 for students through high school. MUSEUM MEMBERSHIP DRIVE TO START Kingman Museum will launch its Spring Membership Drive with Saturday's presentation of The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Spring membership brings benefits for the balance of this year, including free admission to the Adventure Films series, plus full membership privileges for the 1997-98 member- ship year. Membership benefits include: • Free admission to Kingman Museum. • Free admission to Wildlife Travel and Adventure Films at W.K Kellogg Auditorium. • Free planetarium programs, weekend films and special events. • Free or special admissions to rec- iprocal museums around the world. • Discounts on workshops and • Kingman Museum News monthly newsletter.. Membership rates for 1997-98 are going up, but memberships for next year can be purchased through June at the present rates: $7/student, $20/adult and $45/family. Explorer member rates are $10, $30 and $65. The Wildlife Travel and Adventure programs for 1997-98 include: • Oct. 4 - Alaska with Curt Matson • Nov* 1 - Cuba with John Holod • Nov, 15 - Jerusalem with Rick Ray • Jan. 24 - Portugal with Dale Smith • Feb. 14 - Search for the Albino with Tom Sterling • Feb. 28 - Hawaii with Clint Denn • March 21 - Costa Rica with Sherilyn Mentes. Kingman Musetem, a division of \ Battle Creek Public Schools, is-Jo- cated in Leila Arboretum on West Michigan Avenue at 20th Street. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday- Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and closed Monday. Admission is free to museum and Discovery Club members. Non- member admission is $2/adult abd $l/child (ages 3-18). Children under age 3 are free. For more infonpa- tion, call 965-5117. '•••• - -- ->*•} GIVEUSACAU jSfifcv Phis is a supplement to the 1 C If you havej for Heiohbors of Neiahbors Pius call Steve week* section. iWrB new*, Siri& at 9664)663 between 6:30 a.m. (Bid ^ pjn., Mondoy -Fridoy, or fax the informatioa to us 019644)299 II
