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COMMUNITY CALENDAR PUBLIC MEETIKGS I TODAY : • Bellevue Township Board of [Trustees, 9 a.m.. Township library. ! • Barry County Board of .•Commissioners, 9:30 a.m., Courthouse Annex, Hastings. ; • Branch County Board of •Commissioners, 3 p.m., court- •+10 use. Cold water. I • Alliens Village Council, 7 p.m., riown Hall. ;l • Convis Township Board, 7 p.m.. Township Hall. • Newton Fownship Board of fTi ustees, 7 p.m., community building !• • North Central Neighborhood jPlanning Council, 7 p.m., NAACP iBuilding, 546 W. Van Buren St. • Pennfield Township Board of ustees. 7 p.m.. Township Hall. * • Quincy Village Council, 7:30 ip.m.. Village Hall. i- • Union Township Board, 7:30 ]>.m.. I aion City Library. \A $EIF-HEIP GROUPS • K.1.D,S.. persons raising mi- nor relatives, 12:30 p.m. today, Old Country Buffet • Sexual Assault Services of Calhoun County, for women, 5:30 p m. today. Call 968-4660. • Down Syndrome Resource League, 6:30 to 8 p.m., today. First Wesleyan Church. Child care is available. For more information, call 962-2698. • Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Support Group, 7 p.m. today, Calhoun Intermediate School District offices. • Fibromyalgia Mutual Support Group, 7 p.m. today, Bronson Methodist Hospital,. Gilmore Center, Kalamazoo. • L()TTS, Living Organ and Tissue i ransplant Support Group, 7 p.m. today, Milham Meadows Club House, Portage. • Lyme Disease Support Group, 7 p.m. today, Concord United Methodist Church. For more information, call 781-7185. • Overcomers (Victory Through Christ), 7 p.m. today, First United Methodist Church, 114 E. Michigan. HEALTH • Lakeview Square mall walk, 6:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Blood pressure screening offered from 7 to 8:30 a.m. SPECIAL INTERESTS • Batde Creek Kendo Club, 7 p.m. today. West Dickman Fitness Center 2851 VV Dickman. Tor more information, call 962-6274. • La Leche League, 7 p.m. today. 101 N. 20th, Battle Creek. For more information, call 343-4008 or 979-1251. • Southwestern Michigan Urban League Guild, 7 p.m. today, Urban league Building, 172 W. Van Buren St. • Cereal City Toastmasters, 6:30 a.m. Wednesday, Shrank's Cafeteria. SERVICE CLUBS • Marshall Lions Club, 6:30 p.m. today, Civic Center, Marshall. • Fort Custer Area Rotary Club, 6:45 a.m. Wednesday, Battle Creek Inn. • Ambucs, 12:15. p.m. Wednesday, Battle Creek Inn. • Batde Creek Exchange Club, noon Wednesday, Custer American Legion Post 54. • Batde Creek Kiwanis Club, noon Wednesday, McCamly Plaza Hotel. WOMEN'S GROUPS • Sweet Adelines Internadonal, 6:45 p.m. today, Burnham Brook Center. VETERANS 7 GROUPS • Veterans Of Foreign Wars, Claude E. Hale Post 4073,7 p.m. today, 800 E. Michigan Ave., Marshall. • Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 565 Auxiliary, 7 p.m. today, 72 Hamblin Ave. 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 include your name and phone number. SETTING IT STRAIGHT The Battle Creek Enquirer cor- rects errors of fact To report an er- ror, call 966-0674. HOW TO REACH US Hove a story lip or idea? Here's how reach os 24 hours a doy;|? • R—dor hotfcw; 966-0681 • Fax: 964-0299 • Great Lakes FrM-Nat: Leave a message in the Battle Creek Enquirer conference area. > h m d t [email protected] I- jL'U LOCAL f» sc t-jj. tf. v I*. v<x TUESDAY, AUG. 12, 1997 BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER 3A Murder trial for Zachaiy continues Jury enters Day 2 of deliberations after four-week long trial K hristine E lliott The Enquirer The jury in the murder trial of Sharon Zachary continued deliberat- ing this morning. It hadn't reached a verdict after its first full day of deliberations Monday. Circuit Judge Stephen Miller sent ju- rors home about 5 p.m. Monday. They returned at 8:30 am. today to continue deliberations. The jury had received the case Friday afternoon after a four-week trial. Zachary, 32, is charged with murder, felony murder and armed rob- bery in the April 26, 1996, beating death of Robert Rogers, 80. She was arrested in December. The Emmett Township woman faces up to life in prison if convicted. Rogers was found dead in his house at 1015 Raymond Road in Emmett Township. Zachary had been buying a house next door to Rogers and had been caring for him. Rogers died from 25 to 30 blows to the head with a pipe, a pathologist tes- tified during the trial. Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor David Wallace had tried to show die jury that Zachary killed Rogers in an argument over his money. ZacharYs thumbprint was found on Rogers' belt and her shoeprint on glass broken from a rear sliding door in his house. Defense Attorney John Hofman had tried to show the jury his client's good character. He had argued that Zachary's thumbprint and her shoeprint were placed on Roger's belt and glass door well , before the day of Sharon Zachary his murder. n FOCUS: CALHOUN COUNTY FAIR Wmi DOUG ALLEN/THE ENQUIRER Cows, pigs, horses, rabbits and other animals were cleaned up for show condition Monday afternoon at the Calhoun County Fair in Marshall. Sara Piepkow, 19, of Olivet, and her litde sister, Shelby, 10, create some suds in die rain. The judging must go on Rain puts damper on opening day of Calhoun Co. Fair D ana C arter The Enquirer MARSHALL - The rabbits, cattle and horses managed to stay dry Monday, even as rain put a damper on things at the 149th Calhoun County Fair. After all, the judging must go on. For area 4-H members, the annual fair is more than carnival rides and caramel apples. It's a chance to show off months of caring, groom- ing and feeding their animals. The rain didn't bother Matt Burch, 15, who brought his rabbit, "Peanut Butter," out for judging Monday. Burch watched patientiy as the judge put his rabbit in a hold- ing box for a possible blue ribbon. Burch got his rabbit from his 4-H leader, Ann Brandt From there he was on his own. M I took a class with a rabbit club," he said. "I learned a lot on how to prepare my rabbit for this." Some competitors were born to do this. Sharla Piepkow, 16, Olivet, was raised on a farm. At age 8, she got a dairy cow to call her own. "1 learned all this on my family farm," she said. "We were brought up to know this stuff." Piepkow's 2-year-old dairy cow is being judged today. In preparation, she has been walking and cleaning it. "I've been doing this for about 10 years now," Piepkow said. For Sarah Wilcox, 15, showing her horse is a family event "I got my horse from my mom," DOUG ALLEN/THE ENQUIRER Brandon Zuck, 9, finds a place to sit back and eat his caramel-cov- ered apple Monday at the fair. ABOUT Tiff FAIR • WHERE: Calhoun County Fairground, Marshall. • ADMISSION: $3 a day for ages 9 oral above, under 9 free. Tickets lor Aaron Tippin and Cotter Ford Bond ..... . DOUG ALLEN/DIE] Kim Hoag, 15, left, and her friend, Lisa Nyiand, 16, both of Tekonsha, kill some time Mon- day afternoon at the fair. she said. Her mom, Eileen Wilcox, is a leader in the 4-H club Dawn of Sundown Riders out of Bedford, and her sister is a competitor as well. The Calhoun County Fair continues through Saturday. pm SCHEDUUOftVWIS TODAY • - • Harness rcidng, 2 pjri. • Aaron Tippin and Ortby Ford Bond concert, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY SENIOR CITIZEN'S DAY • Harness rodna, 2 p.m. • Tractor pull -rarmstock, 5:30 p.m. • Trader pull event, 7:30 p.m. Free-Net launches fund-raising drive Area's most popular online provider aims to keep service free gr $6 Here are some news nuggets from the local online scene: FREE-NET FUND RAISING Battle Creek's first and still most- used online com- puter system. Great Lakes Free-Net, has started its annual fund-raising campaign. The nonprofit oup's budget is 63,000 a year, and the campaign goal is $25,000. Remaining money will be sought from community groups and other fund-raising events. Contributions pay for telephone and system maintenance, system training, marketing, office expenses and special projects. "We need your contribution to help us keep the "free' in Free-Net," Free- Net Coordinator Laurie Walter-Hadley said. The system has grown each of its four years. Users can access via 40 modem lines and 20 lines from the Internet to free e-mail, bulletin boards, online meetings, and live chat sessions. And more hardware im- provements are on the horizon. Free-Net users have received donor letters and envelopes; others can make donations by calling Willard Library at 968-8166. WEB PAGES FROM HOMER A new Internet business has sprouted across Calhoun County from Battle Creek. Gary and Marci Farmer of Homer are representatives of the new National Directory of Internet Yellow Pages, located at www.ndiyp.com Just like the phone book, this web site is a directory of businesses na- tionwide that can be searched first by area code or zip code, then by a par- ticular product or service. Such services have really caught on in New York City, the couple said, where grocery stores deliver items or- dered by e-mail and restaurants put menus and prices online. Tourists also turn to these web sites for information about services such as hotels and campgrounds. "Everyone is playing with a com- puter these days. That's why it's im- portant to get your business out there," said Farmer, who also is a me- chanic for a Hillsdale car dealership. The service costs from $12 to $199 a month for an advertisement similar to those found in traditional Yellow Pages. The ads can be linked to web pages the service also can design. Nonprofit organizations can get free ads, and any business can list its name, address and phone number for free. To reach the Farmers, leave a voice- mail message at 800-844-9639, ext. 3438, or e-mail them at [email protected] CITY S SLICKER WEB SITE Battle Creek's combined City Hall- chamber-Battle Creek Unlimited web site has been freshened up a little in recent weeks: • The old Full Tilt section, promot- ing the city's downtown entertain- ment complex, has changed to its new name. Information for Full Blast (the new name) now is at www.fullblast.org with a few spiffy new pictures but mostly the same ma- terial. • The Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce section boasts a photo tour of the area with thumbnaifsized pictures on a left-hand index. Clicking one produces a bigger version with caption. Topic areas are arts and entertain- ment, education, transportation, living, downtown, business and industry. And the chamber is soliciting photos from the public to add to the collec- tion. Not a bad way to show the world what the Cereal City looks like. If only the operators would keep the site fresh in other areas. A "jobs available" area still advertises the fire chiefs position long after it was filled, and the most recent City Commission minutes available are from May 6. ; r Bill Miller's column on local com- puter and online activity appears every other Tuesday. Staff Writer Lynda Rea contributed reporting to this column. ! ! I IBKWImnSt l*(re4WJ9017 tant enqunrQcenokfyaxn '••fFO Kalamazoo group plans birth control distribution The Enquirer KALAMAZOO - Planned Parenthood of South Central Michigan will be giving away birth control products and information in Kalamazoo today. The giveaway will be held from noon to 7 p.m. at 4201 West Michigan. Women under 30 may be pre- scribed a month's worth of free birth control pills and women over 30 will receive coupons for discounted future exams and free pills. Condoms will also be available. Kim Squires, Planned Parenthood's marketing and public affairs special- ist, developed the idea in response to the United States' reported 56 to 60 percent pregnancy rate. NEIGHBORS PLUS 'Meating the With the Calhoun County 4-H livestock Auction just days away, bidders still have the opportunity to direct their bids to the Food Bank of South Central Mich- igan through the "Meating the Need" project. The auction will take place on Friday at the Calhoun County Fair in Marshall. n Businesses and individuals can ei- ther send a donation directly to the Food Bank or can attend the auction, bid on the animal of their choosing and then donate the animal to the Food Bank. Money donations are pooled and the Food Bank will have a bidder on hand to place the bids. In ei- ther case, the 4-H youth receives the money from the sale of their animal, the Food Bank receives the meat and the buyer is entitled to a Michigan Tax Credit for his or her donation. The Food Bank has secured fund- ing from the Food Bank Council of Michigan to cover all processing costs for donated animals. Once processed, the meat will be made available to the Food Bank member charity agencies serving the needy in Calhoun County. For more information, call 964-3663. Donations may be mailed to: Food Bank of South Central Michigan, "Meating the Need", P.O. Box 408, Battle Creek, MI 49016. The Food Bank of South Central Michigan is a United Way supported agency and is a member of Second Harvest and the Food Bank Council of Michigan. IN THE SERVICE Navy Airman Kelly J. Finney, daughter of Garry L and Ruth A. Finney of Union City, recently partici- pated in the largest exercise of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group's deployment to date. Exercise Invitex 97-1 was comprised of 22 types of ships and submarines spanning seven countries participating in exten- sive operations at sea and over land. A 1996 graduate of Union City High School, Finney joined the Navy in June 1996. Jeremy J. Barnes has been pro- moted to the rank of sergeant in the U.S. Army. Barnes is a combat engi- neer with the Aberdeen Test Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md. A 1993 graduate of Bellevue High School, he is the son of Kathy Hewitt of Dayton, Ohio, and the grandson of George and Joyce Hewitt of Bellevue. Marine Pfc. Branden S. Woodard, son of Stewart A and Monica L Woodard of Batde Creek, recently completed the Marine Corps Field Wireman course at Marine Corps Communications Electronics School, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, Calif. He joined the Marine Corps in September 1996.Army Reserve Pvt Patrick S. Morris has graduated from basic combat training at Fori Knox, Radcliff, Ky. Morris is the son of Nancy J. Wozniak of Battle Creek. GIVEUSACAU Neighbors CI mi is o supplement to the 1 'weekly Nawhkett ^ctiorv iPublhhiil^oA^ , If youfcovenef* telNghbors coi Steve Smihot 966-0663 w t i h d 4 D J I L • o n d G y - < v. 964-

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