50 Wisconsin's Best Newspaper WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1999 Law jail costly sussephesslescecil By Judy Mahoney Post-Crescent staff writer 3 Conversion of the two proposed Outagamie County sites range from $6.3 million to $12.1 million t-UKK tif hS3 WISCONSIN suited for conversion to Huber Law (work release) jail space. "From a design standpoint, the facility provided some real assets," said architect Tom Miron of Stubenrauch Architects, Ap-pleton. The original health center building was constructed in 1899. It currently is used for staffing and general meetings. Two wings built in 1957 and numerous additions and renovations made since then are used for the center's 254 residents.
Long corridors in the residential wings "provide for convenient reuse but do not Please see JAIL, BACK PAGE COLLEGE i CC A I I 111 LAWRENCE Q) a I hM i I 6 i Take your pick. Whichever option Outagamie County officials choose for creating more office space and more jail area for work release prisoners, it will be expensive. Two long-awaited studies on the feasibility and costs of converting St. Joseph School at Lawrence and Elm streets and the county's current health center building on W. Brewster Street to other uses were unveiled at Tuesday's County Board meeting- As county supervisors got their first look at estimated costs, the collective gasp at the price tags was almost audible.
Estimates range from $6.7 million to $12.1 million for the health center site and from $6.3 million to 12 million for the St. Joseph site. Of the two buildings, the health center appears to be in better shape and more v. School district bursting Inside Today iTTN i' A I at seams Enrollment continues to grow in Hortonville, as 135 more students are expected this year "TT" By Roger Pitt Post-Crescent Waupaca bureau chief HORTONVILLE Just when Hortonville School District officials believed the growth of the district was about to slow and stabilize, it is experiencing an unexpected increase in enrollment. "Right now it looks like we will have 135 more students than last year," Supt.
Gregory Joseph told the Board of Education this week. "It is three times the growth of Fun Games The P-C's weekly Packers For Kids! page offers fun facts, games, trivia and brain teasers Pl ease i ICQ i I i i 51 I last year, he said. Board president Willard Griesbach said this could be the district's largest enrollment increase. Joseph said enrollments continue to fluctuate daily as new pupils are enrolled in the schools. "We could have several more students by the time school opens or the number could drop," "Asmail class size is better.
Experience shows that pupils in lower grades have better literate skills in small classes and there is less remedial needs." GREGORY JOSEPH, Hortonville superintendent si-' 'kV .1 rtV Postrescent photos by Sharon Cekada Taste of India Culinary experts are spicing things up a bit with an upcoming event that honors flavor of Indian food MEMBERS OF THE Kaukauna High School football team run Hinkens offers quarterback Mike Freeman some instruction through some drills the first official day of prep foot- during the practice session. Look for The Post-Crescent's ball practice across the state. At top, Kaukauna coach Glen Prep Football Preview in the Thursday, Aug. 26, edition. inside Officials mull rerouting city train traffic Landers C-3 Local news B-4 Sports D-1 TV.
C-4 Theater. C-4 Weather A-14 Bridge C-4 Classified C-5 Comics B-8 Crossword C-10 Donohue C-4 Joseph said. Current enrollment figures total 2,391. The increasing enrollment caused some concern among board members about class size and the capacity of school buildings, especially Greenville Elementary School. Bruce Carew, Greenville principal, said the current enrollment at Greenville is 705.
"The maximum rating for the building is 720," he said. Carew said the average class size for K-5 at Greenville is 21 pupils. Joseph said at Monday's meeting that the district tried to maintain a class size of 20 or less in the lower grades. i "A small class size is better. Ex- With one train an hour now rumbling through Appleton, city officials are concerned about safety and train noise two to three trains a day to maybe one train an hour through Appleton.
And that's 24 hours a day," Balliet said. The Wisconsin Central tracks run diagonally through Appleton from southwest to northeast and cross many city streets, only four of them protected by gates. Kavanaugh said a bypass route would make sense from a safety standpoint. Aid. Helen Nagler embraced the idea of rerouting the trains, noting that many are carrying haz- By Pete Bach Post-Crescent staff writer With Wisconsin Central Ltd.
how running an average of one train per hour through Appleton, some people have rekindled the idea of having the railroad consider rerouting trains around the city. The latest to advance the idea of a bypass route was Appleton police Capt. Robert Kavanaugh on Tuesday during a Public Safety Committee meeting. Committee chairman Daniel Balliet mention- limiiail ed the increase in freight train volume during a report on a private meeting with four Wisconsin Central railroad officials Friday to discuss ways to minimize horn blowing under a city ordinance. "They said in the last 10 years it's gone from 00023' 7883 The Post-Crescent uses recycled paper Please see TRAINS, BACK PAGE Please see SCHOOL, BACK PAGE It's official: Wal-Mart and Kohl's building in Neenah LA shooter linked to hate group i ft' one of them critically injured.
"There was nothing said by the suspect before the shooting," Police Chief Bernard Parks said. "It was indiscriminate." The suspect was identified by police as Buford Oneal Furrow, a 37-year-old white man who was believed to have lived in California and Washington state. Police said Furrow had no known links to center staff or children and it was unknown Please see SHOOTER, BACK PAGE LOS ANGELES (AP) A manhunt spread across the West today as authorities searched for the balding suspect who walked into a Jewish community center and fired more than 70 bullets from an assault-style gun before slipping away and vanishing in metropolitan Los Angeles. Police said the motive was unknown, but there were indications that hate may have been the reason for the attack that wounded five people and stirred new unease over gun violence. Among the wounded were three young children, Manhunt spreads for i 3year-old suspect who attacked Jewish I community center plan for the retail center that will be located on the north side of Win-neconne Avenue between 41 arid Tullar Road.
The commission also granted a planned business center zoning classification for the development. The Post-Crescent reported in Please see NEENAH, BACK PAGE By Andy Thompson Post-Crescent staff writer NEENAH It's official: A Wal-Mart Supercenter and a Kohl's Department Store will be the anchors of a $20 million shopping center west of U.S. 41. The Plan Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a site BUFORD ONEAL FURROW Newspaper report says he lived with the widow of hate group founder. 0o.
