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COMMUNITY CALENDAR HELP YOURSELF

Have you ever lost your pet? Have you ever found a pet that lost its owner? Here are a few tips to in-crease the number of lost pets re-turned to their owners:

Pets should have proper forms of identification. A dog should have a license, an identification tag with your name, address, and phone number and a microchip implant.

As soon as you are aware that your pet is missing, search the neighborhood and call its name. Give neighbors a descriotion or a photo of your pet. Tell the postal de-livery person, as they are usually fa-miliar with neighborhood animals.

Post signs in your neighbor-hood, local stores, schools and sur-rounding areas. Include a description of the pet and its name, a photo, your name, address, phone number, and the date the pet was lost.

Put "lost" ads in the local paper with all the necessary information.

Visit the Humane Society-Calhoun Area, 2500 Watkins Road, Battle Creek, to complete a lost re-port (bring a photo, too) and check out the animals there. Many ani-mals are brought in by animal con-trol or the public. Visit the shelter several times a week because some animals may wander the streets for days or weeks before being brought to the shelter.

For more information, call the shelter at 963-1796.

PUBLIC MEETINGS TODAY Nashville Village Council, 7

p.m.. Community Center Building. Burlington Township Planning

Council meeting, 7:30 p.m.. Township Hall.

SELF-HELP GROUPS Battle Creek Gay/Lesbian

Connections, 7 p.m. today. Call 968-9563 or 962-6672. .

Building Better Relationships, 7 p.m. today. Church of Christ, 122 N. 20th Street, LeClear Connection.

HEALTH Lakeview Square mall walk,

6:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Blood pressure screening from 7 to 8:30 a.m.

SPECIAL INTERESTS landlord/tenant law. free

seminar presented by Legal Services Organization, 6 p.m. to-day, United Way Building, 182 W. Van Buren. Call 965-3951, ext. 224.

North American Patriots Association, 6:30 p.m. today. Speed's Koffee Shop, 1425 W. Michigan Ave.

Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International, i3:30 p.m. Friday, Custer American Legion Post 54. . . .

Interaction of Kalamazoo, Inc. (for single adults), 7:30 p.m. Friday, People's Church, 1758 N. 10th St., Kalamazoo.

Battle Creek Bike Club, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Bellevue Junior

. High to Vermontville.

SERVICE CLUBS r t Harper Creek Optimist I Club, 6:30 p.m. today, Custer * American legion Post 54.

VETERANS' GROUPS Vietnam Veterans of

>America, Calhoun County :-Chapter 313^ g p.m. dinner, 7 p.m. ^'meeting today, VFW, 800 E. I Michigan Ave., Marshall.

SENIOR CITIZENS Legal Services Organization

^free legal advice/counsel to seniors, ; : I0 a.m. to noon Friday, Tekonsha ;'SeniorCenter. 127 E.Jackson Drive, I fekonsha. Call 965-3951.

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GETTING IT STRAIGHT T ; Charles E. Charameda, who

died Sunday, is survived by a sister, J'Deloris Swank of Battle Creek, v because of a clerical error, her ^ name was omitted from his obitu-^3ry Wednesday.

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You can go home again... as a teacher

SCOTT ERSKINE/THE ENQUIRER Jenny Haskins, pictured in the catwalk near Batde Creek Central High School, will be teaching math at her Bearcat alma mater.

Students return to halls of alma mater

Sharon Feneley-Driscoll never imagined she would one day work in the class-rooms where she learned reading and writing.

But years af-ter she left Pennfield's Dunlap Middle School, she's back... as a teacher.

"1 never thought 1 would be in the same dis-trict teaching. But it's a Comforting feeling to know everyone is there."

Feneley-Driscoll is just one of many teachers who return to the fa-miliarity of their former schools to teach, whether by choice or chance.

Although districts don't actively seek out alumni to teach, it's quite common for teachers to head back to their home schools.

"This happens a great deal." said Alan Quick, a professor of teacher education at Central Michigan University.

It's a compliment to the teacher to return to a former school.

"I think to be able to go through a

school," Quick said, "and to have the school district to feel strongly enough about you to want you to work with their youth, I think it's a tremendous tribute." SOME WANT TO GIVE BACK

While some teachers end up in their old schools unintentionally, a few have made it their goal to re-turn.

Next year, two former Battle Creek Central High School salutato-rians will begin teaching at their alma mater.

Jenny Haskins, 22, and Kennet Santana, 22, said they both wanted to teach in Battle Creek after col-lege so they could give back to the community.

"It's something I've always wanted to do," said Haskins, a 1992 graduate of Central, and later of Anderson University in Indiana. "I'm happy that I'm able to give something back to them now."

Santana, a 1993 graduate of Central, said he's coming back to Battle Creek for similar reasons.

"At one time I was a delinquent (as a young child), and it was people in Battle Creek who helped me make the right choices," said Santana, a University of Michigan graduate who will teach a new course on contemporary American issues.

"You feel like you have an invest-

ment in that community." FAMILIARITY HELPS

Teachers say it seems a little odd at first to return to teach at their schools.

A certain part of the old student always lingers.

"I'm having a little bit of a hard time adjusting to the fact that I'm going to be the one in charge of the classroom instead of the one sitting in the classroom," Central's Haskins said.

And like Pennfield's Feneley-Driscoll, some teachers are still in-clined to call former teachers "Mr."' and "Mrs.".

"In the beginning, it was a lot dif-ferent because I had to get used to calling the teachers I had by their first names," said Driscoll, 30, who ha^ taught there eight years.

"There are still some teachers that I still can't say their first names."

But that kind of familiarity with a school and its staff can be a big plus.

"By the relationship that I've al-ready formed I won't feel like I'm going into a totally foreign environ-ment," Haskins said.

"I think it will help me to adjust a lot faster."

Staff writer Liz Wyatt covers ed-ucation issues. Her column appears on Thursdays.

Defense paints son as suspect in murder tried

Sharon Zachary

Father changed will, gave all to caretaker

TRACE CHRISTENSON lite Enquirer

Donald Rogers often argued with his father, was cut out of the will and hadn't seen him for months before his murder.

Despite their differences, Rogers in-sisted Wednesday he did not kill Robert C. Rog-ers, 80.

"Absolutely not," he testified.

His testimony came during the trial of another person charged with the murder of his father.

Sharon Zachary, 31, is charged with murder, felony murder and armed robbery in the April 26, 1996, beating death of the el-derly Emmett Township man. She faces life in prison if convicted.

Defense Attorney John Hofman has suggested that the dead man's son "is a likely suspect in the case." On Wednesday, he asked Rogers detailed questions about his relationship with his father and where he was the day of the murder.

ROCKY RELATIONSHIP Rogers testified: His father "always treated me like

a little kid." When Rogers was a child, he said his father never attended school functions.

His father was vindictive and spiteful.

Robert Rogers attacked his son with the fact that he was adopted. "He once said he bought you just like he bought everything else, didn't he?" Hofman asked. "That is a direct quote," Donald Rogers said.

Both men had tempers. 'Testosterone runs not just in my fa-ther," he said.

Years before, Robert Rogers had knocked his son from a roof while they were shingling it.

They sometimes stood "toe to toe, yelling at each other."

In December 1995, the last time they saw each other. Donald Rogers went to his father's house to get a 25-foot telephone cord he had left there. His father would not let him in and in-sisted he didn't recognize him.

Robert Rogers rewrote his will, taking his son out and naming Zachary as sole beneficiary. The

worth of the estate has been esti-mated at $500,000-to $750,000.

Donald Rogers said he expected to get that money. "When I found out he gave everything to someone he knew only two years, I thought it was kind of odd."

Earlier. Rogers testified he moved in with his father for a few months af-ter changing jobs and moving back to Battle Creek from Ohio, and left be-cause the two men couldn't get along.

Rogers said the relationship with his father was argumentative for most of their lives, but was not bad enough to cause him to kill his father.

"We are both very opinionated peo-ple and were always very vocal. We ar-gued, but it was just the way we got along."

Rogers said he was in a daze after learning of his father's death.

"You are used to your dad being there. Someone to fight with and to bounce an idea off of. I was in shock."

Rogers said he didn't learn he had been taken out of the will until he was told by Zachary the afternoon after his father was killed.

And while he is contesting the will. Rogers insisted he doesn't care about the money and would be satisfied if il was all given to the American Cancer Society, something his father often threatened to do.

Rogers insisted to Hofman that he once told his attorney, "If everything went to the cancer society. I would not object to it." "

Rogers also testified that on the day his father was murdered, he returned from his overnight shift at General Motors in Kalamazoo about 7 a.m. and slept until 2:30 p.m., then went to his second job selling real estate. He later returned home, where he was notified by police of his father's death.

OTHER SUSPECTS? Donald Rogers was only the first of

several people that Hofman suggested might be responsible for the murder of Robert Rogers During questioning of several neighbors and Emmett Township police, Hofman asked about previous burglaries at the house and assaults on Rogers, known to have large sums of money. In some cases, police had developed suspects.

He also asked about a red van seen in the area, although Emmett Township Lt. Thomas Headley later testified that he questioned the driver.

Several of the witnesses testified they saw Rogers' white Ford Crown Victoria parked behind his home be-ginning at 8 a.m. the day he was mur-dered. even though Rogers had been living with Zachary two houses away.

The body was found about 4 p.m.

Union City may reconsider school tax L i z WYATT

The Enquirer

UNION CITY - Union City Community Schools' newest superin-tendent wants voters to reconsider a tax increase to update the district's school buildings.

Martin Chard, who on Monday was appointed the district's new superin-tendent, said one of his top goals is to pursue a bond, possibly on the December ballot, to fix aging school buildings and to furnish them with computers and other technology up-

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grades. He said it will be similar to a $6.4

million bond proposal that voters turned down in June.

Chard said the district staff will first talk to community members to find out why voter turnout was so low at last month's election and what can be done to improve it the second time around.

.The district will hold a series of public meetings about its needs, he said.

Other top goals include improving communication between school staff and the public, as well as aligning the

district's K-12 curriculum. Chard, 52, had been serving as in-

terim superintendent at Union City since William Courliss left to take a job at Clare Public Schools, a district northwest of Midland.

Courliss. 51. left after three years because he wanted to return to north-ern Michigan. Before coming to Union City in 1994. Courliss had been superintendent of Littlefield Public School District, located in the north-ern part of the lx)wer Peninsula.

The Board of Education voted unan-

imously Monday to make Chard the permanent replacement for Courliss.

Chard was the only applicant for the job, which was not advertised. A search committee decided not to look for other applicants.

Chard, a lifelong Union City resi-dent, had been principal at the high school for more than two years .

Before coming to Union City, he was a social studies teacher at Quincy Community Schools for more than 27 years.

He also served on the Union City

Community Schools Board of Education.

Chard still is ne-gotiating his con-

V 1 , i r t i n c h a r d tract and salary with the district.

The district is now searching for a new high school principal to replace Chard.

No one from within the district has expressed interest. Chard said. He said he hopes to find a principal by Aug. 15.

Local hospital auxilian named to state

STEVE SMIT

Barbara Egland of Battle Creek recently was appointed to her second term as by-laws and policy chairman of the Michigan Association of Hospital Auxil-iaries at the group's annual meeting and edu-cational institute at the Grand Hotel on Mac-kinac Island.

Egland is an ac-tive member of the Battle Creek Health System Auxiliary. She has served on the Southwest District Board of the Michigan auxiliary for four years as budget chairwoman and auditor. A re-tired junior high school teacher, she is involved in community activities, in-cluding serving on the boards of the

Barb Egland

Battle Creek Downtown Development Authority and the Lakeview Down-town Devel-opment Au-thority, which she also serves as secretary. She also is a member of the Battle Creek Irish-American Club and a volunteer for the Battle Creek balloon festival. An ac-tive member of St Peter Lutheran Church, she serves OR its Outreach Committee and also coordinates pro-jects for Kambly Living Center.

The purpose of the Michigan Association of Hospital Auxiliaries is to provide services, education and leadership training to MAHA mem-

bership in addition to providing sup-port to the Michigan Health and Hospital Association. This past year, 28,569 auxilians donated 3.050.181 hours of service to their respective hospitals.

ON CAMPUS Nancy Ann Berry has. been

awarded the doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Michigan State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. Berry, a 1987 graduate of Lakeview High School, is the daugh-ter of John R. Berry of Kalamazoo.

Jennifer A. Zablotny has been awarded the doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Michigan State University's. College of Veterinary Medicine. Zablotny, a 1984 graduate of Harper Creek High School, is the daughter of Judith and James

Hunsicker of Battle Creek.

Christopher L. Fink of Battle Creek was named to the spring-se-mester dean's list at Lake Superior State University. Students must attain at least a 3.5 grade-point average to be named to the list.

Dana C. Imhof. who graduated summa cum laude in April from Adrian College, has been awarded a $2,000 graduate scholarship for the 1997-98 school year from the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. Imhof, daughter of Keith and Eileen Imhof of Tekonsha, received the scholarship after completing a standout career as a top student and campus leader at Adrian College. She was regularly named to the dean's list and received numerous awards, including the Political Science Award and the pres-

tigious President's Leadership Award. Only 66 people nationwide received the highly competitive scholarship.

The following area residents were named to the spring-quarter dean's list at Michigan Technological University by earning a grade-point average of at least 3.5: Mark M. Brankovich of Albion; Anitra L. Bennett of Battle Creek; and Matthew M. Davis and Kevin S. Wilbourn, both of Ceresco.

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