COMMUNITY CAUNDAR WHIK MEETINGS

MONDAY • Calhoun County Family Inde-

pendence Agency Board, noon, Cal-houn County Medical Care Facility. Call 96-1414 if planning to attend.

• Batde Creek Historic District Commission, 4 p.m.. City Hall 301.

• Neighborhood Planning Coun-ciHJrbandale, 7 p.m., Lamora Park School.

jP Albion Public Schools, 7 p.m. • Dehon-KeDogg Board of Edu-

cation, 7 pjn., Delton-Kellogg Ele-mentary School, Delton.

• Harper Creek School Board, 7 p.m.. Harper Creek High School.

• Marshall Board of Education, 7 p.m.. Middle School.

• Richland Village Council, 7 p.m.. Fire Station.

• Tekonsha Board of Education, 7 p.m., Tekonsha High School.

• Galesburg City Council, 7:30 p.m.. City Hall.

• Bronson City Council, 7:30 p.m.. City Hall.

• Hastings City Council, 7:30 p.m.. City Hall.

• Olivet Board of Education, 7:30 p.m.. Middle School.

• Union City Council, 7:30 p.m.. Village Office.

• Bronson Board of Education, 8 p.m.. High School.

• Charlotte City Council, 8 p.m.. Municipal Building.

• Coldwater City Council, 8 p.m.. City Hall.

• Olivet City Council, 8 p.m.. City Hall.

SELF-HELP GROUPS

• Support Group for Survivors of Domestic Violence (verbal, physical, emotional, and/or sexual), 9:30 a.m. Monday and Wednesday, SAFE. Place. Call 965-7233.

• Alliance for Mentally 111 of Calhoun County, family support, 6 p.m. Monday, Mercy Pavilion Com-munity Education Room. 963-0762.

• Burns United, for children and parents, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sa-lem Lutheran Church, .1-94 and Moross, Detroit Call 313-881-5577.

• Agora & Panic Attack Sup-port Group, 7 p.m. Monday, Bedford Hills Clubhouse. Call 963-7416 or 660-2131.

SPECIAL INTERESTS • Transformed Toastmasters,

11 a.m. Sunday, First Wesleyan Church, Room 207. Call 963-4462.

• Den Fellowship Ministries, 2 p.m. Sunday services, special events. No offerings taken. Call the Rev. Michael L Lucas, 963-7012.

Greater Kalamazoo Chris-"lagtefc, 7:30 p.ai. Sunday,

Third Reformed Church, 2346 N. lOtti St, Kalamazoo. 616^754815.

• Duplicate Bridge, 11 am. Monday, Bumham Brook, Country Kitchen.

• Bingo, 6 p.m. Monday, Eagles Aeiie 299,19753 Capital N.E.

• Batde Creek Table Tennis Club, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Monday, Territorial School gym. Tennis shoes required, balls included, pad-dles are not 965-2646 or 963-3772.

4 Barbershop Singers, Cereal City Chorus and quartets, 8 p.m. Monday, Northside Manor, enter at rear, downstairs; guests welcome. Call 965-6456 or 963-0821.

SERVICE CLUBS ^

9 Batfle Creek Area Rotary Club, 12:15 pjn. Monday, McCam-ly Plaza Hotel.

• Pennfield Optimist Club, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Penn Station.

W O M E N ' S GROUPS

• . Batde Creek Newcomers, meet other women new in town at monthly meetings, coffees, mom-n-tot group, crafts, etc. Also, couple events on weekends. Call 9644501.

VETERANS' GROUPS

• Veterans Of Foreign Wars, Claude E. Hale Post 4073, 7 p.m. Tuesday, 800 E. Michigan Ave., Marshall. Call 781-6731.

• Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 565 Auxiliary, 7 p.m. Tues-day, 72 E. Hamlin, business meeting.

TO SUBMIT INFORMATION

Please send items to Community Calendar, 155 W. Van Buren St, Bat-de Creek 49017-3093. Or fax them to us at 964-0299. Please include your name and phone number.

SETTING IT STRAIGHT • KeUogg's Co.'s annual share-

holders' meeting is 1 p.m. Friday, April 25, in W.K. Kellogg Auditor-ium, Batde Creek. The date was in-correct in a story Friday on Page4A

The Battle Creek Enquirer cor-rects errors of fact To report an er-ror, call 9660674.

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Caregiver to be tried in murder Woman bound over in beating death of 80-year-old man

TRACE CHRISTENSON The Enquirer

A Battle Creek woman has been or-dered to stand trial in the murder of an 80-year-old man.

Sharon Zachary, 31, was wiping away tears as family members mouthed the words Mbe strong" after

Calhoun County District Judge Sam-uel Durham ordered her bound over to circuit court. The ruling came on the third day of testimony in her pre-liminary hearing.

Zachary is charged with murder, felony murder and armed robbery in the beating death of Robert Rogers, 80. His body was found on the floor of his home April 26.

If convicted, she faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

She is being held without bond in the county jail.

Witnesses said Zachary, who lived

next door to Rogers, was caring for him. He had been living with the fam-ily at the time of his death.

But police found him in his own house and a pathologist said he had been beaten in the back of the head at least 25 times with a hard object

Police recovered a pipe in a pond behind the house and believe it is the murder weapon.

Durham said the decision to send the case to trial Was a "close ques-tion" but decided that two pieces of evidence, coupled with a motive ar-gued by Assistant Prosecutor David

Wallace, was enough to find probable cause.

Laboratory technicians called by Wallace testified they found an impres-sion from Zachar/s tennis shoes on glass broken from a sliding door. They also found her thumb print on a belt Rogers was wearing when he died.

Wallace also presented evidence that Zachary was named in Rogers' will about five months before he was killed. Bank officials said she, after being given power of attorney, had withdrawn $10,000 from Rogers* ac-count on April 8 and again on April 25.

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BECKY SHIHK/THE ENQUIRER

Forrest Mark looks over a selection of old toy cars at the Kellogg Arena garage sale.

Bargain hunters braved bitter, icy weather Friday to hunt for collectibles at a huge garage sale in Kellogg Arena. The sale runs today from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The entrance fee is $3 for adults and children 12 and under can get in free.

An old coin piques Lee Child's interest Diane Wespinter of Marshall digs through a box of old dishes and utensils.

.b Police found $133,000 in cash in die

house and some estimates have placed his net worth at $500,000. • •'

But Defense Attorney John Hofinah said the prosecution's case was buflt on conjecture and speculation. H h

He argued that Zachary gave Rog-ers the belt for Christmas and, as his caregiver, helped him with h?s clothes. He also argued that the foot-print could have been placed on the glass well before Rogers was killed.;

"They can't date that fingerprint and they can't date that shoe printT he said.

Red car linked to murder found

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Police have found a car believedto have been used in a Battle Creek murder this week. - - "

Battle Creek police seized a red Ply-mouth Breeze late Friday at Lakeside Apartments, 1103 E. Michigan Ave. r

Investigators believe the car wa$ used by two men who shot and killed Quincy Webb about 3:10 p.-nj Wednesday. T -

Webb, 22, was shot once in the head and died near Bernardo Place and Hubbard Street while he was standing with several other men. *' ,*

Police have a suspect in the shoot-ing but no arrests have been Detective Sgt Carter Bright said Fri day. 1

"The status of the case really changed^ Bright said.

Police discovered the car early FH day and continued to watch it most j) the day, hoping at least one of suspects might return.

"We had some tips they were bly hanging out in that area," Bi said.

Bright said the car was towed froj the apartment lot late Friday and be processed by crime tecl searching for evidence in the shooi ing. t

Witnesses to the shooting said small red car with two men inside drove past Webb and the other men. They exchanged gestures and per-haps words and the car turned around and returned.

At least one of the men in the car began firing and Webb shot back. Bright said.

Witnesses said at least 15 shots were fired.

Some witnesses said a second might have been injured, but B said police still have not located one else who was hurt

Police have not disclosed the typ^3 of guns believed used by eitnpr • shooter and said they have not recov-ered any weapons. >

He said detectives will be working today on the case. >

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1,400 educators focus on middle school issues j Team teaching, the challenges of banquet included

adolescence and bringing the busi-ness community into the classroom were among the topics discussed Thursday and Friday as nearly 1,400 educators attended the 27th annual Michigan Association of Middle School Educators' (MAMSE) con-ference in Batde Creek.

The conference, hosted by Lakeview Junior High;School, fea-tured keynote speaker Kathy Hunt operate in teaching students.

presentation of MAMSE's Louis G. Romano Scholarship to Michelle "Shelly" Chubinski, an eighth-grader at Lakeview Junior High School.

The conference, which had the theme "Treasure the Middle," also featured a wide variety of workshops dealing with issues relating to middle schools. Sessions were held both at Lakeview Junior High School and at McCamly Plaza Hotel

As part of the conference, Lakeview Junior High School staff members and students shared their experi-ences with "teaming," where teach-ers of different subjects work together to integrate concepts and co-

Resource Extraordinaire," featuriitg Lakeview Junior High's Business Partners. They are representatives of die business community who come to the junior high school on a regular ba-sis to work with students on planning, goal setting and time management Those involved in the presentation in-cluded Joe Davio, Ron White, Zorbo, Ed Huard, Dan Gertea, Karin Lewis, Larry Wingard, Sharon Davis, Dave Steger, Kathy Dingwall, Ann Hamisch, Paul Doersam, Bill Brandell and Dingwall.

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lEOCY SHINK/THE ENQUIRES Middle school expert Katfay Hunt adjusts a transparency as she con-ducts a workshop at Lakeview Junior High School as part of the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators' state conference.

of Boulder, Colo.Hunt is founder of Creative Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in innovative programs and practices at the middle school level

A highlight of the conference was MAMSE's annual banquet Thursday night at McCamly Plaza Hotel Hie

Ann Harnisch, a teacher at Lakeview Junior High School, was conference chair. Penny Osborn, another Lakeview Junior High School teacher, is the current president of MAMSE.

Among the dozens of workshops of-fered was "Business Partners . . .

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