FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2002 www.greenbaypressgazette.com 50 CENTS A member of Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers SSlM BAY IPEESS az TRAININGS Three beaches reopen to swimmers CAMP Door County Beach conditions For a daily list of Door County beach conditions, closures and health information, see the Web site for the county Public Health Department at www.co.door.wi.us health.html Otumba still being tested BY PAUL BRINKMANN Press-Gazette Door County bureau pbrinkmagreenbaypressgazette.com The Cooney family of Traverse City, was happy to splash and wade the beaches will have more problems this summer, but bacteria generally disperse in cooler weather and thrive in heat. The health department will continue testing the four beaches daily until Wednesday, director Rhonda Kolberg said. After that, testing will take place weekly. County officials also met Thursday to discuss future testing plans. They decided to hold a preliminary meeting with University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh associate professor of microbiology Gregory Kleinheinz, who proposed a daily monitoring program using state grants next year.
The county hasn't See Beaches, A-6 Park and Fish Creek Beach Thursday after days of being closed because of high E. coli bacteria levels in the water. Otumba Park in Sturgeon Bay remained closed until tests show one more day of low bacteria levels. No one can say for sure if "TV feed Thursday at Nicolet Beach after falling E. coli bacteria levels allowed it to be reopened.
"We've gone to other beaches all week. We're leaving Friday, but we're having fun today," Bob Cooney said. The Door County Public Health Department reopened three beaches Nicolet, Frank E. Murphy "-ft 1 I Regular tube television sets, like these at Van Vreede's Appliance Electronics Furniture on Mason Street in Green Bay, may become obsolete as manufacturers begin producing digital sets to meet an FCC requirement. Evan SieglePress-Gazette Broadcasters applaud television conversion mandate Low marks net Fort Howard sanctions BY KELLEY BRUSS ktxussgreenbaypressgazette.com Parents of students at Fort Howard Elementary School can choose to send their children to another Green Bay school because Fort Howard is officially recognized as a school in need of improvement.
No Child Left Behind, the new federal elementary and secondary education law, says when schools don't have enough students reaching proficiency on standardized tests, students in those schools may transfer to other schools in their district. Fort Howard, which didn't meet the standard in reading, is one of 84 schools on the Department of Public Instruction's list of 2002-03 sanctioned schools. Sixty-four of the schools are in Milwaukee. "This is a preliminary list," said Joe Donovan, a DPI spokesman. "It's not the completed list.
Schools can appeal." Green Bay has already appealed and now must follow through with the requirements for a school that needs to improve, said David Zadnik, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction. Schools are sanctioned when they don't meet state standards in reading andor math for two years or more. If they fail to comply with the sanction requirements, schools jeopardize their federal Title I funding. A first year on the list re-quires schools to offer transfers. Schools in the second year Fort Howard is one of them have to offer both transfers and extra services such as tutoring.
Zadnik said Fort Howard has programs in place to help students do better in reading, including Reading Recovery, Literacy First and SAGE, the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education. Zadnik hopes parents won't bolt, from Fort Howard. "It's a test score that we're relying on, which is very discomforting," he said. "But it's what the rules are and we go by the. rules." Of the 291 students expected to attend Fort Howard this fall, 81 percent are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches a common measure of poverty in schools.
Green Bay administrators will meet next week to plan parent notification and discuss how to handle requests for transfers and extra services. "We view this as an opportunity," Zadnik said. "We've got things to will push along the future, just like when we converted to color. It's the same sort of process that we're going through now." "The quicker this happens, the better it will be for everyone," said Ken Albers, a manager at Van Vreede's Appliance Electronics and Furniture, 2180 W. Mason St.
"This' whole process has been dragging on for around seven years and with so much up in the air it's hard to make deci BY WARREN GERDS AND TERRY ANDERSON wgerdsgreenbaypressgazette.com tandersogreenbaypressgazette.com A federal order quickening the pace for conversion to digital television should bring our viewing future into sharper focus, several local experts say The Federal Communications Commission voted 3-1 Thursday to require television manufac turers to include digital tuners in all new big-screen sets by 2004 and all sizes of sets by July 2007. Digital reception "is the future of television," said Don Carmichael, general manager of WBAY-TV, Channel 2, Green Bay, and chairman of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association. "In the long run, the consumers will appreciate it and be happier with the product that they get," he said. "The ruling the advent of DVDs and home-entertainment systems bigger viewing screens, customers want the picture clarity that comes from Albers said. think that if you plan on a TV and you plan on it for 10 or 12 years, going to want to be able to See Digital, A-6 1 I 1 Security Council should reply to the questions raised by Iraq and should honor its obligations under its own resolutions," Saddam said, dressed in a dark gray suit and sitting in front of a desk adorned with white lilies.
Iraq submitted 19 questions to Annan in March when talks began on the possible return of inspectors. The talks have since collapsed, and the Security Council, where the United States holds veto power, has issued no response. 613 badges, which would cost $12,260 to replace. "Each of these items poses a threat to national security public safety or ongoing investigations, if lost or stolen," the report said. Customs has more than 19,000 employees worldwide and oversees roughly 301 points of entry into the United States.
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Iraq remains under tight U.N. sanctions until inspectors certify Saddam no longer has chemical, nuclear or biological weapons or the missiles to deliver them. The sanctions were imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, eventually touching off the 1991 war. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Thursday that the Iraqi government hadn't given "an inch" toward meeting U.N.
demands for the return of the inspec from an audit by the Treasury Department's inspector general. Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, had requested the audit that was completed Monday and he released a heavily edited copy of the inspector general's report Thursday The sensitive items lost or stolen from 1999 through 2001 from Cus Customs Service missing computers, weapons, tors. "I don't see any change in attitude," he said. In a televised speech on the anniversary of the end of the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, Saddam said "the forces of evil" a reference to the United States and its chief ally, Britain would "die in disgraceful failure" if they attack Iraq. Saddam said the real issue was not Iraqi behavior but the U.N.
Security Council's refusal to respond to his questions about the inspections. "The right way is that the toms, a Treasury Department agency, included: 2,251 computers (1,713 desktops and 538 laptops), valued at $690,000. 72 firearms, although 13 were subsequently recovered, leaving 59 unaccounted for that were valued at $18,560. One recovered weapon had been used in a gang-related drive-by shooting, the report said. B-4 A-7 C-1 D-1 D-4 Members of the governing Ba'ath party stand close to a portrait of President Saddam Hussein on Thursday while attending a military parade.
The Associated Press audit finds said customs did have controls in place that limited access to computer files and its computer network. "Those controls decreased the risk that classified or sensitive data would be compromised if a computer were lost or stolen," the report said. No ammunition was reported stolen or lost over those three years. The Associated Press WASHINGTON More than 2,200 computers and 72 weapons have been lost or stolen from the U.S. Customs Service over the last three years, Sen.
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