COMMUNITY CALENDAR PUBLIC MEETINGS TODAY

Battle Creek Zoning Board of Ap-peals, 4 p.m.. City Hall.

Kellogg Community College Board, 6:30 p.m., KCC Mawby Center.

Battle Creek City Commission, 7 p.m.. City Hall.

Leroy Township Board, 7 p.m.. Community Building, East Leroy.

Climax Village Council, 7:30 p.m.. Village library.

Kalamazoo County Board. 7:30 p.m.. County Building, Kalamazoo.

Mar Lee Board of Education, 8 p.m.. Mar Lee School.

Quincy Board of Education, 8 p.m.. High School. WEDNESDAY

Calhoun County Board of Road Commissioners, 9 am., 13300 15-Mile Road, Marshall.

Battle Creek Housing Board of Appeals, 1:30 p.m.. Room 301 City Hall.

SELF-HELP GROUPS People With Any Type Of

Disability. 2 to 4 p.m. today, upper level of Department of Social Se-curity building, Michigan Jobs Com-mission Rehabilitation Services. Call Dawn Laupp, 968-3311.

Sexual Assault Services Of Calhoun County, teens, 4:30 p.m. today, women, 5:30 p.m. today. For location, call 9684660.

Parents Of Murdered Child-ren, Battle Creek chapter, 6 p.m. to-day, American Legion Post 54, 1125 E. Columbia Ave. For information or to talk. 517-630-8107 or 965-1859.

Overcomers (Victory Through Christ). 7 p.m. today. First United Methodist Church 114 E. Michigan. Battle Creek. For information, call 965-1148.

Gay/Lesbian Alcoholic Anony-mous, 8 p.m. today. SL Luke Church basement, 247 Lovell. Kalamazoo.

SPECIAL INTERESTS Battle Creek Kendo Club, 7

p.m. today. West Dickman Fitness Center 2851 W. Dickman 962-6274.

Cereal City Breakfast Club flbastmasters). 6:30 am. Wednes-day. Shrank's Cafeteria.

SERVICE CLUBS Fort Custer Area Rotary Club.

6:45 am. Wednesday, Battle Creek Inn.

WOMEITS GROUPS Sweet Adelines International,

6:45 to 9:30 p.m. today, Burnham Brook Center. Room 103 962-9662.

VETERANS' GROUPS .Disabled American Veterans

o( Calhoun County and Auxili-ary, monthly meeting, 7 p.m. today, Burnham Brook Center. For infor-mation, call 968-9841.

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•Stanley and Mary Musolff will celebrate their 50th wedding an-niversary with an open house hosted by their children from 6 to 9* p.m., Saturday in the Bronson Union Hall. Due to a clerical error, the day was omitted in Sunday's paper. The couple requests no gifts.

;William T. and Catherine Spear of Battle Creek celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a surprise party for them hosted by their son, Bill Spear, and Sandy, Travis and Joshua Groff. Due to a clerical error, a name was omitted in Sunday's paper.

Wayne and Rose Jenner will celebrate their 50th wedding an-niversary with a reception at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 27, at the American Legion Hall on Columbia Avenue in Battle Creek. Due to incomplete information given to the Enquirer, the incorrect city was given in Sunday's paper.

'The Battle Creek Enquirer cor-rects errors of fact. To report an er-rQr, call 966-0674.

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Marshall police, firefighters seek new home Public safety director says departments have outgrown facilities

LYNN WALBECK For the Enquirer

MARSHALL - The city's police and fire-fighting operation is outgrowing its quarters at historic Town Hall, so city officials are considering moving it to a new location.

"We're landlocked here (in the ex-isting building)," Public Safety Director Roger Graves said.

IN OTHER BUSINESS The Morshall Oty Council voted to: • Adopt a resohrHon lo dkm the dty

to recoup the expense of providing res-cue services outside the dty.

• Approve a report from the director of finance on poficy for proposed delin-quent personal property-tax collection.

The City Council voted Monday to appoint a committee to study feasibility of a new building for public safety op-erations. Graves anticipates that one of

the committee's jobs will be to investi-gate funding methods, including any available state and federal grants. No cost estimate has been made.

Graves said Town Hall at the Fountain Circle, built in 1857, last un-derwent major renovation in 1976. At that time, the section currently hous-ing the fire department was added. Even then. Graves says the arrange-ment was less than ideal.

Last March, about 50 police, fire and ambulance service employees signed a letter to City Manager Maurice Evans asking for a feasibility committee to be formed. They cited numerous maintenance problems and

overcrowding in areas designated for public safety.

The city's current budget contains provisions to address maintenance items mentioned in the letter, includ-ing repair of the roof and replacement of an overhead door apparatus and of-fice windows, but the space needs are unanswered.

Many areas were never designed to contain computers, fax machines and printers.

Space for a new booking room and 24-hour holding cell, required by the move of the Calhoun County Jail from Marshall to Battle Creek several years ago, was carved out of existing office

areas. As a result, up to seven officers share one room for conducting inter-views, making telephone calls and preparing handwritten reports.

While the current arrangement has-' n't hampered services yet, the poten-tial exists, says Graves.

Six people have been appointed to the feasibility committee, with a city resident and a council member to be added at the next City Council meet-ing Oct. 6.

Present members are: police Sgt. Don Mawer, Assistant Fire Chief Jim Libbrecht, firefighters Craig Kempf and Dave Fuller, Evans and Graves.

FOCUS: OUR CLASSROOMS

Nurse on duty

DOUG ALLEN/THE ENQUIRER

Sue Boley meets with a group of Calhoun County School nurses at the National House Inn in Marshall.

Boley cares for Marshall's students

MARSHALL — Sue Boley's job as Marshall Public Schools nurse is definitely a lot more work than putting Band-Aids on cuts.

As the dis-

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trict's lone nurse, she cares for 2,653 students in six different school build-ings. She sees 10-12 students daily for any-thing from a stomach ache to a sprained ankle, and sometimes is just there for students who need someone to talk to.

In addition to healing the students' nicks and bruises, Boley frequently gives educational presentations for the different grade levels on any-thing from personal hygiene to sex-ually transmitted diseases.

Boley said it's a demanding job, but she enjoys working with the students.

"I've always been interested in youth, it is kind of up my alley to

THE BOLEY FILE • NAME: Sue Boley, 52. • WHAT: MarshoH Public Schook

nurse for three years. Her duties ro-tate among six Afferent schook.

• BACKGROUND: Formerly on operating room nurse for 20 years at Oaklawn Hospital.

• RESIDES: In Marshall, is mar-ried to Frank and has two children, Kristy, 21, and Jon, 27.

work with kids," she said. Working with children, however,

is a lot different than what she's been used to as a former operating room nurse for 20 years.

Before, she was never able to build up a relationship with her pa-tients. At Marshall, most of the stu-dents now know her.

"I'll see kids at the grocery store and they 11 say... 'It's the school nurse. It's a very special feeling be-ing part of the community." GETTING THE WORD OUT

At the fourth grade-level, Boley starts talking to the students about personal hygiene.

In seventh grade, as part of the family living curriculum which in-corporates sex education, she dis-

cusses sexually transmitted dis-eases and the health risks.

These classroom discussions and presentations, she said, are all part of stressing the importance of good health, and restating the impor-tance of preventative medicine. CALLING THE SHOTS

When she's not in a classroom or dealing with the daily doses of scrapes and scratches, she's giving immunizations and keeping track of all the students' records.

"We do immunizations at the be-ginning of school and again in January just to keep on top of things," she said.

Madison Elementary School Principal Tim Bedford has had to work at a school district where there wasn't a school nurse. He ap-preciates Boley taking charge of student health records.

"It is good to know that we can call her," he said. "In emergency-type situations, it is certainly a benefit."

And Boley enjoys being on hand to help the staff and students.

"If I can make someone feel bet-ter, it makes my day," she said.

Staff writer Xochitl Pena reports on education issues in southcentral Michigan. Her column appears every other Tuesday.

Caretaker gets life in prison Zachary maintains innocence, plans to appeal judge's ruling

TRACE CHRISTENSON The Enquirer

Still maintaining her innocence, Sharon Zachary was sentenced Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison.

"This is the hardest day of my life because you are about to sentence me for a crime I did not commit," Zachary, 32, told Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Miller. "One day we will all stand before God, the ultimate judge, and I will be able to do that without fear."

A few feet away, Zachary's son. Josh, 18, held his head in his hands and cried.

Despite the jury verdict in August, he believes his mother was innocent of killing Robert Rogers, an elderly Emmett Township man.

"It is wrong what happened in (the courtroom)," he said. "She is not guilty, there is no question in my mind."

As she always has, Zachary de-clared she did not commit the crime.

"I did not kill Mr. Rogers," she told Miller.

But EvaBelle Deppa of Grand Ledge, a cousin of Rogers, said she was not convinced by Sharon Zachary's statement

"I can't blame her for trying," Deppa said after the sentencing. "But with all the evidence against her, I think she is fighting a losing battle. I think she could tell a very good story but I have trouble believing her."

Zachary was given a mandatory life sentence without parole for her con-viction of first-degree murder and 15 to 30 years for armed robbery.

Miller told Zachary that "the evi-dence, although circumstantial, cer-tainly justifies the verdict."

She was charged with the beating death and robbery of Rogers, 80, who was found dead in his home at 1015 Raymond Road on April 26, 1996.

Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor David Wallace argued that Zachary killed Rogers for his estate, estimated at $750,000. She and her family had been renting a home from Rogers and she had been caring for him. Rogers named Zachary sole ben-eficiary in his will several months be-fore he was killed by 30 blows to the head with a metal pipe.

Wallace built a largely circumstan-tial case against her, although a shoeprint matching a pair of her ten-nis shoes was found on broken glass

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Sharon Zachary listens to court proceedings.

from a basement sliding door and Zachary's thumbprint was found on the belt Rogers was wearing when he died.

Wallace suggested to the jury that the print was left when Zachary turned the body over, looking for money in his pockets.

Defense Attorney John Hofman ar-gued that the thumbprint was left sometime earlier, perhaps when Zachary bought the belt for Rogers or when she helped him with his clothes.

Hofinan pointed to several other possible suspects, including people who had robbed and beaten Rogers before and even the dead man's son, Donald, who had been estranged from his father for some time before his death.

Donald Rogers denied he had any-thing to do with his father's death. He was a suspect early in the investiga-tion, but passed a polygraph, convinc-ing Emmett Township police that he was not involved.

After the sentencing Monday, Donald Rogers said he believes Zachary killed his father and contin-ues to lieby saying she is not guilty.

He credited the police and Wallace with solving a difficult crime but re-mains bitter that he was named by the defense as a suspect during the trial. Rogers is attempting to have his fa-ther's will overturned, but no decision has yet been made in Probate Court.

Hofman told Judge Miller a "mis-carriage of justice has occurred here and you are about to sentence an in-nocent person."

Zachary said she will appeal and continue to fight until she is freed.

'This will not end until the day I go home," she said.

"I think she is home now," Donald Rogers said a few minutes later.

NEIGHBORS PLUS

State Red Cross honors longtime volunteer Lelah Horning of Battle Creek will

celebrate her 90th birthday on Thursday, but she got an early pre sent Monday night when she was named the State

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Adult Red Cross Volunteer of the Year.

She received the award at the Red Cross state conference at Shanty Creek.

Horning's as-sociation with the Red Cross dates back 70 years, when she took a Red Cross water safety program in 1927 at what was then Michigan State College.

She began her volunteer work at Percy Jones Hospital and then trans-ferred to the Veterans Affairs Medical Center when Percy Jones closed in 1953.

As a volunteer at the VA Medical Center, Horning researched and pre-

pared a weekly musical lesson for patients cen-tering around a different com-poser each week. Musically gifted patients often performed one of the compositions on the grand pi-ano in the lounge. This was years before music therapy was widely accepted as part of therapeutic patient treatment

Horning has supported the Red Cross for more than 37 years by work-ing at the Battle Creek Adventist Hospital, at Mercy Pavilion, as a Gray Lady in the civilian hospitals and fi-nally for the Red Cross chapter blood services program, contributing more than 11,000 hours of service.

She has been inducted into the Battle Creek Area Senior Citizens Hall of Fame and the Volunteer

Bureau Hall of Fame, and this year re-ceived the Massachusetts Mutual Continuing Service Award as part of the JCPenney Golden Rule Awards.

She firmly believes that there is no age limit on volunteering: "I am hav-ing one of the happiest periods of my life."

Lelah Homing DANCERS KICK OFF SEASON

Members of the Kalamazoo chapter of the U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association (USAB DA), will kick off their 1997-98 ballroom dance season Friday with their first anniversary dance at the Lake Center Elementary School at 10011 Portage Road, 5.5 miles south of 1-94.

Max Ali, a Detroit area instructor, will teach the beginning level of the in-ternational fox-trot There also will be a demonstration of the cha-cha.

The dance coincides with National Ballroom Dance Week 1997, which is celebrated nationwide from Sept 19-

28. Cost of the dance is $5 for associa-

tion members and $8 for all others. The free one-hour dance lesson in

the international fox-trot will start at 7 p.m., with open dancing from 8-10:30 p.m. Singles, couples and first-time dancers are welcome, and dress code is encouraged.

For more information, call 616-344-5752 or or 616-382-2743.

IN THE SERVia

Marine Lance Cpl. Raheim J. Bundle, son of Steve A. Bundle of Battle Creek, recently returned to Camp Pendleton, Calif., from a six-month deployment with Battalion Landing Team 2/4 as part of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). While de-ployed, Bundle participated in Exercise Tandem Thrust *97 off Queensland, Australia He joined the Marine Corps in December 1993.

Christopher L. Tracy received practical work in military leadership at the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Advanced Camp at Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Wash. The camp, attended by cadets normally between their third and fourth years of college, includes instruction in communications, management and survival training. Tracy, a 1989 gradu-ate of Hastings High School, is a stu-dent at Michigan State University. He is the son of Leland A. Tracy and Carol Rase, both of Hastings.

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