COMMUNITY CALENDAR H H P YOURSELF

Looking for something to do? Try the 22 miles of natural-surface mountain bike trails at Fort Custer Recreation Area near Augusta. The trails are surrounded by

lionds, streams, fields and forests. Qne offers a view of Eagle Lake. Some have challenging hills. For more information, call 7314200.

PUBLIC MEETINGS T O D A Y v* Battle Creek Area Transpor-

tation Study, 1:30 p.m., Springfield Municipal Bldg., 601 Avenue A. k-

f H U R S D A Y < : Tekonsha Township Planning

Commission, 6:30 p.m., Township flail.

SELF-HELP GROUPS

Support Group for People Infected/Affected by HIV/AIDS, 6 to 8 p.m. today in Coldwater. For location, call 1-800-944-2437. Nicotine Anonymous, 9 a.m.

Thursday, Burnham Brook Center. I Battle Creek Gay/Lesbian Connections, 7 p.m. Thursday. Call 968-9563 or 962-6672.

Building Better Relation-ships, 7 p.m. Thursday, Church of Christ, 122 N. 20th Street, LeClear Connection.

HEALTH Lakeview Square mall walk,

6:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays. Blood pres-sure screening from 7 to 8:30 a.m.

SPECIAL INTERESTS North American Patriots

Association, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Speed's Restaurant, 1425 W. Michi-gan Ave.

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Michigan Chapter, 7 p.m. Thursday, Clarion Hotel, 3600 E. Cork St, Kalamazoo.

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

SERVICE CLUBS Battle Creek Exchange

Club, noon today, Custer Ameri-can Legion Post 54.

Battle Creek Kiwanis Club, noon today, McCamly Plaza Hotel.

Ambucs, Battle Creek Area Chapter 12:15 p.m. today. Battle Creek Inn.

Cereal City Lions Club, 6:30 p.m. today, McCamly Plaza Hotel.

Pennfield Lions Club, 6:30 p.m. today, Penn Station.

Battle Creek Early Morning l ions, 7 a.m. Thursday, Shrank's.

Harper Creek Optimist Club, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Custer American Legion Post 54.

VETERANS' GROUPS Custer American Legion

Post 54 , 1 to 4:30 p.m. today, 1125 E. Columbia Ave.

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SENIOR CITIZENS Senior meals served by Elder

Services Department of the Com-munity Action Agency: 11:30 a.m. Monday through Friday in Spring-view Towers, Bedford Manor, Franklin Center, Washington Heights United Methodist Church and Mercy Pavilion Lakeview Cen-ter; 11:30 a.m. Monday. Wednesday and Friday in Springlield Senior Fellowship Center at Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center, 765 Upton Ave. Reserve the previous open day at 963-1212.

Foot-care clinic, $15, by ap-pointment, 11:30 to 2 p.m. Thurs-day, Battle Creek Health System Wellness Clinic, Burnham Brook Center. Call 966-2566.

TO SUBMIT INFORMATION Please send items to Commu-

nity Calendar, 155 W. Van Buren St, Battle Creek 49017-3093. Or fax to 964-0299. Please include your name and phone number.

SETTING IT STRAIGHT Laurence M. Billingsley is

survived by a son, Dave Billingsley of Houston. Because of incorrect information provided to the Enquirer, his name was incorrect on Page 4A Tuesday.

Jennifer Stark, a Battle Creek Public Schools teacher, was shown in a Page 1A photo Tuesday about the grade-alignment plan. Because of a reporting error, a caption in-correctly identified her.

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

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Prosecution: Suspect spent victim's cash T R A C E C H R I S T E N S O N

The Enquirer

The prosecution is presenting the money trail as an Emmett Township woman's murder trial moves into its third week.

Sharon Zachary, 31, is charged with the April 26, 1996, murder of Robert Rogers, 80.

Rogers was found beaten to death in his Raymond Road home.

On Tuesday, Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor David Wallace be-gan calling on bank officials and others to show that Zachary was spending thousands of dollars from Rogers' ac-counts. He said bank records showed

Zachary had spent more than $66,000 before Rogers was killed.

"And they were not for Mr. Rogers' bills," he said.

In his opening arguments, Wallace had said he would try to show that Zachary convinced Rogers to give her power of attorney, and then she began spending his money for herself and her family. He told the jury that Zachary killed Rogers because he was upset about her spending and threatened to cut the funds.

Zachary denies killing Rogers. Her attorney, John Hofman, has said she was spending money that Rogers agreed to pay her for caring for him.

On Tuesday, several bank officials

testified that A check for $44,564 was de-

posited on Sept 29, 1995, in an ac-count Rogers-had at Great Lakes Bancorp. That same day, a check for $16,464 was written to Zachary and then cashed at the bank. Several other checks also were written, including one for $6,800 for a boat purchased at Byrd's Landing in Battle Creek.

Rogers opened another account with $35,600 on Feb. 15, 1995, at Great Lakes, the same day that Zachary moved $30,200 into a second account On April 24, 1995, she with-drew $10,375, paid a Vicksburg car company $3,600, had a check for $5,700 written to her, and took nearly

$1,000 in cash. Wallace said more bank officials will

be called to testify today. In testimony earlier Tuesday,

Trooper Joseph Garrett. of the Michigan State Police at Battle Creek said he interviewed Zachary a few days after the murder.

He testified that Zachary told him she left her home about 8:15 a.m. on the day Rogers was murdered and went to see a friend. She and her friend returned to her house, where she saw Rogers in the kitchen be-tween 9:30 and 10 a.m. The two women then returned about 11:15 a.m. to check a flooding problem near Rogers' home, took a walk on her

property and'then left a short time later for most of the afternoon.

Two members of the state police dive team said in May 1996, after the murder, they found a 3-foot section of pipe in a pond behind Rogers' house.

A lab technician. Heather Milch, said she found blood matching Rogers' on the pipe, and that she was surprised the blood was there after being in the water.

Milch also said she found the vic-tim's blood in many locations at the murder scene, but did not find any blood matching Zachary's.

Store's reputation draws crowds

PATRICIA MAHER

Collectibles sell before business even opens

MARSHALL - Wanona Ray's eclectic taste is so appealing to downtown shoppers that she already has sold out of a few items.

That's even before the doors to Brownstone, her new shop, officially open.

Ray isn't certain ex-acdy when her store will be completed, but she expects it could all come together in about three weeks.

For now, the doors are open Thursdays through Mondays with evening hours on Fridays and Saturdays. Ray's hours may Iiange as she fine-tunes her schedule, trying to figure out what works best for cus-tomers. T If the doors are open, you're likely to find her inside painting or arranging a display of P^wabic tiles and pottery, local contemporary artwork or custom hand-woven rugs.

She talks with calm ease about the vision she's developed with her Belgian associate, Pierre Duelz of Detroit's Indian Village.

The calm comes from years of thinking and dreaming about owning a store like Brownstone, said Ray, a Detroit native who worked for years as an accountant and spent eight years in Mexico studying anthropology.

"I was looking to find the perfect town, the perfect market, and I was just lucky to find the only building for sale in Marshall," Ray said.

On Tuesday morning, Ray meandered around the denim pillows and bright, plastic portfolios she and Duelz created. She pointed out the brass door knockers and crystal wine glasses Duelz picked up during trips to flea markets in France and Belgium.

Duelz, who plans to hit flea

KEVIN H A R E / T H E ENQUIRER Animal collectibles are just some of the items on display at Brownstone, a new antique store in the heart of Marshall. Although not "officially" open yet, the store is open for business and is already having trouble keeping some items on the shelf.

markets in Brussels in September, said he looks for ar-chitectural items when he's out shopping. But he never knows what might catch his eye: a set of plastic dishes, an enormous gilt mirror, a window.

"If it clicks, it clicks. I have no criteria what-soever," said Duelz, who has been designing accessories for years. "I am very interested in design, more than the value of things."

Ray shares Duelz's carefree attention to de-tails. After she bought the 102 W. Michigan Ave. building in June, she moved her personal belongings into one of the two upstairs apart-ments and began to transform the former site of Victor's Railroad, a toy-train store that

closed in January when the owner moved to Florida.

She helped pull down the ceiling to reveal strong beams of the old brownstone building that originally was built as a grocery store.

She tore out what didn't suit her vision - a plaster wall, the linoleum, light fixtures and ceiling tiles. She left behind what's turned into a warm, artistic setting - solid oak floor, a row of windows at the tip-top of the store front and bricks.

Here and there, she has left a few broken boards, a patch of concrete or plaster. The space has been stripped to a state that reveals the building process, some of the change the building has undergone throughout the years.

Still ordering just the right classic modern furniture - the Eames chairs, the Corbusier sofas - Ray obviously is comfortable with tran-sition.

She and Duelz say Brownstone always will be evolving. . Rob Nordine, president of the Marshall Area Chamber of Commerce, said the duo's effort to transform the space next to Schlotzky's Deli will enhance the city's already thriving down-

town. "I think they bring a different dimension,"

Nordine said. "They're an antique shop, but they have a different perspective. She's an in-teresting person who has some very unique ideas."

Staff Writer Patricia Maher reports on people and issues in southcentral Michigan. Her col-umn appears on Wednesdays.

Patrido Maher Battle Creek Enquirer 155 W. Van Buren Battle Creek, Ml 49017 Phone: 966-0657 E-mail: enquirer@cereakity.com

KEVIN H A R E / T H E ENQUIRER Wanona Ray looks over merchandise at Brownstone, her new antique store in downtown Marshall.

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NEIGHBORS PLUS

Great Lakes Free-Net fund drive is under way

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The Great Lakes Free-Net annual fund drive is under way, with organiz-ers this week sending out requests for contributions to support the commu-nity computer in- STEVE

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KEVIN HARE/THE ENQUIRER Laurie Walter-Hadley has been coordinator of the Great Lakes Free-Net since May.

formation sys-tem.

Laurie Wal-ter-Hadley took over as coordina-tor of the Great Lakes Free-Net in May, and di-vides hertime be-tween free-net operations and her work as a psychotherapist in pri-vate practice. As the only employed administrator for Great Lakes Free-Net, she oversees system functioning, volunteer efforts, user registration and training, and the marketing of the computer network.

For information on how to become a Great Lakes Free-Net user or to make a tax-deductible contribution to the nonprofit organization, visit the media desk on the second floor of Willard Public Library downtown.

M I N I GRAND PRIX AWARDS GIVEN Junior Achievement's first Mini-

Grand Prix added an exciting new di-mension to Taste of Battle Creek.

Seventeen racing teams tested their skills on the streets surrounding the Battle Creek Gas Co. in a series of heats leading up to the championship race, won by car No. 69, sponsored by Advantage Sintered Metals.

Coming in second was Silverfoam's car No. 50, followed by the Felpausch car No. 75 in third place.

In addition to the racing competi-tion, teams were judged on the race car paint jobs, racing team uniforms, and attractiveness of the cold pit ar-eas. Archway Cookies took first place in both the paint scheme and best-dressed pit crew contests. Kellogg won the most attractive cold pit area competition.

Teams also participated in a t ire change competition before the racing heats began. The Kellogg plant team took third place with a time of 20.5 seconds. Second place in the tire chal-lenge went to Advantage Sintered

Metals, with a time of 19.99 seconds. The Archway team took first, with a time of 12.8 seconds.

Proceeds from the race will go to provide Junior Achievement econom-ics education programs to students from kindergarten through 12th grade in south central Michigan. Major race sponsors include Southern Michigan Bank & Trust, ti-tle sponsor; Burnham Insurance Group, silver sponsor; Archway Cookies, driving school sponsor; and Battle Creek Inn, banquet sponsor.

The Winner's Circle Banquet was held on July 25, where all the winning teams were presented with trophies.

For information on how to enter a car in next year's race, call the Junior Achievement office at 968-9188

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