COMMUNITY CALENDAR PUBLIC MEETINGS TODAY
Calhoun County Board of Commissioners, 7 p.m.. District
Courtroom County Building, Marshall.
Pennfield Board of Education, 7 p.m.. High School.
SELF-HELP GROUPS Building Better Relation-
ships, 7 p.m. today. Church of Christ, 122 N. 20th St.
Kalamazoo Gay/Lesbian Resource Center Youth Group, 7 p.m. today.
First Presbyterian Church, 321 W. South St., Kalamazoo.
S.H.A.R.E. Center, (Self-Help Advocacy Recovery and Enrichment)
120-B Grove St. 964-8133.
Bipolar Group, 2 p.m. Friday, open meeting.
Survivors Anonymous, 2 p.m. Saturday.
Alcoholics Anonymous, 6 p.m. Saturday big book study group
SUBSTANCE ABUSE Substance Abuse Awareness
Program, Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church 964-3830.
7 p.m. Friday. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday. ALANON, 1125 W.
Territorial
Road, 964-7577 (All meetings are non-smoking.)
Noon Friday. 9 a.m. Saturday.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Calhoun County Group, 1125 W. Territorial
Road, 964-7577:
9 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. daily.
8 p.m. Friday, open with a speaker.
6:30 p.m. Saturday, women's meeting.
Narcotics Anonymous: For in-formation, call Battle Creek
Narcotics Anonymous Helpline, 966-5092.
Maple United Methodist Church, 342 Capital Ave. N.E.
Noon Monday through Friday, open meetings.
7:30 p.m. today, closed meet-ing.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 16 E. Van Buren St.
5:30 p.m. today, closed meet- . ing, step study.
5:30 p.m. Friday, open meet-ing.
10 a.m. Saturday, open meet-ing, how and why text study, closed
meeting.
SPECIAL INTERESTS North American Patriots
Association, 6:30 p.m. today. Speed's ' Koffee Shop, 1425 W.
Michigan Ave.
Southern Michigan Amateur Radio Society, 7 p.m. today. Math
Science Center, 765 Upton Ave. Batde Creek Stamp Club, 7
p.m. Friday, Y Center Board Room 963-6303.
SERVICE CLUBS Harper Creek Optimist Club,
6:30 p.m. today, Custer American Legion Post 54.
SENIORS SENIOR MEALS: Dining s e
nior-style lunches served by Elder Services Department of the
Community Action Agency are available at:
11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday in Springview Towers, Bedford
Manor, Franklin Center, Washington Heights United Methodist Church
and Mercy Pavilion I^akeview Center. > 11:30 a.m. Monday,
Wednes-
day and Friday in Springfield Senior Fellowship Center at the
Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center, 765 Upton Ave. Make
reservations the previous open day at 963-1212.
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LOCAL THURSDAY, JULY 1 7 , 1 9 9 7 BATTU- CKICI-K ENCJUIKKK 3
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Jurors sought for murder trial Gruesome testimony, paper trail
expected
T R A C E C H R I S T E N S O N Vie Enquirer
A jury will hear sometimes grue-some and sometimes tedious
testi-mony for the next four weeks in an Emmett Township murder
case, lawyers hinted Wednesday.
But no one yet knows who will be on that jury.
Selection continues today as 25 prospective jurors were told to
report for questioning in Calhoun County Circuit Judge Stephen
Miller's court-room.
Once seated, the jury will hear tes-timony in the murder trial
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Student reaches for the sky today, moon tomorrow
Don't tell Brooke Fry the sky is the limit.
She knows it's just a tired cliche. 'There are no
limits in dreams, and dreams do come true."
And if it were the limit, the 18-year-old Battle Creek Central
High School honor student would have al-ready flown way past
it.
Every week. Fry soars hundreds of feet above Calhoun County in a
glider airplane.
Earlier this year, an anonymous donor gave about $400 to the
Marshall Soaring Club for an area student to learn how to pilot a
glider - a motorless plane.
Fry won the scholarship. Without it, she wouldn't have been able
to af-ford lessons.
And now she's well on her way to flying solo.
"I want to be an astronaut. I've al-ways wanted to since I was 3
years
olcV' said Fry, who also attends the Battle Creek Area
Mathematics & Science Center.
"And I decided that anything that will get me in the air is good
enough."
SOAR LIKE A BIRD Any time Fry isn't at one of her
two jobs (Utile Caesars Pizza and the center formerly known as
Full Tilt), she heads out to Marshall's Brooks Field airport.
Fry is learning to soar in an or-ange training glider.
She buckles down in the front seat with her instructor, Dick
Wilcox, be-hind hen
"Mainly I do most of the flying, and then if I need help, he's
there."
A bright yellow crop-duster plane tows the glider with a
200-feet rope down a grass runway and into the air.
When they reach about 2,500 feet (about half a mile) above the
earth,
Sharon Zachary. Zachary, 32, is charged with open
murder, felony murder, and armed robbery in the April 26,1996,
death of Robert Rogers, 80.
Emmett Township police said Rogers was beaten to death and a
pathologist has testified the victim was struck 25 times in the
head with a hard object: Police believe it was an iron pipe.
As assistant prosecutor David Wallace questioned prospective
ju-rors Wednesday, he asked if the na-ture of the crime would
affect their ability to be impartial.
"There are some things that won't be pleasant," Wallace told the
panel. He said they will see pictures and hear descriptions of
blood on the walls and floor where Rogers was found. "I want to
know if that will be a
ABOUT THE CLUB WHAT: Marshall Soaring Qub
includes about 25 members from southern Michigan and northern
Indiana who fly glider planes, it's been in existence about 12
years.
SCHOLARSHIP: An anony mous donor gave the club a first-time
scholarship on behalf of dub members Dick Wilcox and Dick Korlock.
Brooke Fry of Battle Creek Central High School won it, and is
learning how to pilot a glider.
FOR INFORMATION: Call club president John McCormick of Olivet at
749-2871.
Fry pulls a knob that releases the rope.
The glider catches currents, turn-ing, dipping and rising. It's
smooth and quiet.
On a sunny day, gliding above the crossing of interstates 94 and
69, both Albion and Battle Creek can be seen in the distance.
Fry practices a variety of maneu-vers such as stalling, turning
and landing.
Then about 15 to 20 minutes later, she returns to the
ground.
BEYOND THE SKY Fry has wanted to fly ever since
her mother first read her a book about the moon landing.
"I decided then that's what 1 wanted to do."
She never wanted to do anything else besides be an astronaut,
except for a period after the Space Shuttle Challenger blew up in
1986.
It wasn't until Verona Elementary School sixth-grade teacher
David Rice re-inspired her that she got back on track.
Rice taught her that just because something is scary, doesn't
mean you shouldn't try it. Fry said.
"So I decided to go for it whole-heartedly."
Since then. Fry has taken aviation classes and attended a NASA
space camp. She plans to go again in December, thanks to a
scholarship.
In her room, she has covered the ceiling with glow-in-the-dark
stars. On the deep purple walls, she plans to paint a space shuttle
and the NASA logo.
problem for you." None of the jurors said it would. As Wallace
and defense attorney
John Hofman questioned jurors, some of the details of their
cases be-gan to emerge.
Describing portions of his case, Wallace:
Said: "We don't have to show mo-tive, but I expect we will show
mo-tive."
In earlier hearings, Wallace has said he believes Zachary killed
Rogers so she would inherit his estate, esti-mated by some at
$500,000. After tak-ing care of him for some time, Zachary was
named by Rogers as the sole beneficiary when he died. Hiat was four
months before he was killed.
Said he expects to introduce stacks of papers including bank
records and considerable scientific
evidence, including DNA testimony. He asked jurors if they could
listen impartially to that evidence.
Asked if jurors would be able to listen to a witness with a
criminal record without automatically deciding she was not
truthful.
Wallace said he will call an inmate at the county jail to
testify about state-ments Zachary allegedly made.about the case
while awaiting trial.
Hofman also hinted at part of his case, when:
He asked jurors if they would re-quire Zachary to testify. He
explained the presumption of innocence, saying that his client
remains not guilty until jurors deliberate and reach some other
conclusion. And he explained the legal premise that a defendant
does not have to testify and that should not be held against the
de-
fense. He said he would dispute testi-
mony expected from the prosecution about Zachary's fingerprint
found on Rogers' belt and her shoe print found on broken glass of a
basement door.
He said testimony will show that Zachary was with family and
friends at the time of the murder.
He said they will try to show that someone else committed the
murder.
During jury selection Wednesday, 22 potential jurors were
dismissed by the judge for specific reasons or by the two lawyers,
who are not required to give reasons.
Among those dismissed after being questioned was a woman whose
mother had been robbed by a care-giver and whose father had been
beaten to death by two young men.
Drainage of Homer Lake again on agenda
P A T R I C I A M A I I K R VIC Enquirer
Drain Commissioner Don Eishen and Homer Ixike residents will be
back again tonight - asking for taxing authority to combat water
quality problems - three weeks earlier than Calhoun County
commissioners had planned.
At the June. 26 meeting, commis-sioners decided to table until
Aug. 7 a request to grant a Homer bike Board taxing authority to
solve weed-growth problems.
They asked Eishen to prove that the lake does need to be cleaned
up be-fore they granted authority. And they picked Aug. 7 because
they thought Eishen might need that much time to determine the
state of the lake.
But Eishen said he has plenty of ev-idence now to prove the lake
is in dan-ger - including documentation from the Michigan
Department of Natural Resources that shows Homer Ixike is one of
Michigan's endangered lakes.
So the Homer Ixike issue is back on the agenda - for the fourth
time this year.
David Heselschwerdt, who lives at the lake, plans to attend the
meeting but he isn't holding his breath on how it will turn out. He
expected authority to be granted in June.
"I don't know. 1 really, really don't know," a tired
Heselschwerdt said Tuesday evening. "I've got to sympa-thize in a
way with the fact that they're new county commissioners and they
haven't been through it. 1 just hope they act (tonight). 1 guess
we're look-ing for some leadership."
Eishen said several lake studies have been conducted since 1983
and the results are consistent.
"All the studies did show that the major source of nutrient
loading comes from within the village sewer-system," he said. "This
is not unusual. Several other lakes (in Michigan) .have similar
problems. Everybody puts fertilizer on their lawns and it drains
down into the lakes."
THE MEETING WHAT: The Calhoun County Board of
Commissioners meeting . WHEN: 7 p.m. tonight WHERE: Calhoun
County Building,
315 W. Green St., Marshall
Dreams have no limits
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BECKY SHINK/THE ENQUIRER
Brooke Fry and instructor Dick Wilcox buckle up before their
flight.
BECKY SHINKAHE ENQUIRER
Duane Mather supports the glider's wing as the tow plane
prepares for the flight.
Fry wants to earn a degree in aerospace engineering, preferably
at Florida Tech because it's near to NASA
After that, who knows? But her former teacher. Rice, said
Fry has the kind of determination to make her lofty goals a
reality.
"I can just see her up there," he
said. "That would be so cool.'
LIZ WYATT Battle Creek Enquirer 155 W. Van Buren Battle Creek,
Ml 49017 Phone: 966-0676
LIZ WYATT
NEIGHBORS PLUS
Blood drive Saturday to help boost low supply The Calhoun County
Red Cross
will sponsor a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. Saturday at
the chap-ter house at 162 W. Van Buren St
'This drive is being held to help boost the blood supply, which
has been at dangerously low levels throughout the month of July,"
said Joni Hatch, blood director for the chapter. "On several
occasions this month, we have had less than one-half day's supply
of O-negative blood in all of Michigan. .."We need healthy people
who are
17 or older and weigh 110 pounds or more to donate blood."
Summer is traditionally a challeng-ing time to collect blood,
since most schools and colleges - the sources of
about 20 percent of Red Cross blood -are closed and thousands of
families travel on annual vacations and/or are busy with other
summer activities. The demand for blood goes up b e cause more
people have elective surg-eries in the summer and more accidents
occur.
"Please do your part to keep the supply adequate for patients
needing transfusions by donating blood," Hatch said.
To help expedite the donation process, the drive is by
appointment. To schedule an appointment, call 962-7528.
All blood types are needed.
ON CAMPUS
Jay Randolph, a 1992 graduate of Battle Creek Central High
School, re-cently earned a bachelor of arts de-gree with honors
from Eastern
Michigan University. He has a major in Spanish and a minor in
teaching English to speakers -of other lan-guages. Randolph, the
son of Tad and Bonnie Randolph of Battle Creek, plans to become a
missionary.
Ross G. Randolph, a senior in the Robert R. McCormick School of
Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University, has
been named to the dean's list for the spring quarter by earning at
least a 3.75 grade-point average. Randolph, a 1993 graduate of
Battle Creek Central High School, is a chemical engineer-ing major.
He is the son of Tad and Bonnie Randolph of Battle Creek.
' Scott Schaberg, son of Marcia Schaberg of Battle Creek, has
been named the recipient of a $1,000 Gleaner Scholarship by Gleaner
Life Insurance Society. He was one of 60 students selected from 172
applicants
for the scholarship. A 1997 graduate of Harper Creek High
School, Schaberg plans to attend Michigan State University in the
fall.
Samuel A. Blyveis of Battle Creek recently received a bachelor
of arts degree and secondary provisional teaching certificate
during spring commencement at Olivet College.
Cathie Miller recently received a doctoral degree in
microbiology and-immunology from the University of Louisville in
Ixmisville, Ky. A 1986 graduate of (ialesburg-Augusta High .
School, she is the daughter of Jim and Jan Miller of Ausuta.
Michael D. Oursler of Battle Creek recently received a bachelor
of arts degree in economics and man-agement from Albion College. He
is the son of Trudy Maddock and David Oursler, both of Battle
Creek.
Kellogg to honor: worker for 5 0 years of service
Kellogg Co. employee Earlene! Bowen will be honored at a 50*
Years of Service Anniversary-Party from 2.30-5:30 p.m.i Monday at
the Kellogg Co. Battle Creek plant main cafeteria.
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