Daily Globe (Newspaper) - January 24, 2003, Ironwood, Michigan NO MATCH Sixers can't stop Dallas Pg 10 FRIDAY JANUARY 24 2003 DAILY IRONWOOD MICHIGAN 50 CENTS GOOD DAY Family of Dolores Velin We are very grateful for your generous donation of the many lovely flowers and ments Josephson Nursing Home residents INSIDE SNOW REPORT ALPINE SKIING REPORT Sponsored by Abelman Pg 2 SPECIAL SESSION Doyle summons ers to assess his plan to chip away at deficit Pg lit SATURDAY SUPER BOWL Preview the year's biggest game in the final NFL Pre- view Special of the season the Daily Globe WEATHER INDEX Last 24 hours Low -11 Last year this date Record 1942 Low -35 1904 Snow Last 24 On the Last year at this This Last details Page 2 INDEX Business 12 Classifieds Comics 16 Obituaries 7 Opinion 4 Wisconsin 13 Defendant in snowmobile death trial takes stand By MARGARET LEVRA Globe Staff Writer A tearful Vreede didn't remember many details of a fatal snowmobile accident last February But what he did recall was very painful There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about the accident and try to figure out what went VanVreede testified I don't recall I do not know VanVreede 39 of Kimberly Wis is charged with drunk driving on a snowmobile causing death related to the Feb 10 death of Daryl Bjornstad 41 of Hudson Wis VanVreede faces a mum of 15 years in prison and a fine if convicted While snowmobiling on Lake Gogebic sled locked skis with one of the riders in party According to Sgt John Bruno a crash reconstruction specialist with the gan State Police in Marquette both sleds rotated counterclockwise with VanVreede falling off his machine His machine con- on striking bile at an angle in the front left corner Bruno testified Thursday in Gogebic County Circuit Court as trial entered its fourth day Bjornstad died instantly from massive internal injuries earlier emergency cal technician testimony showed I remember standing up pulling my helmet off and Denis Deisinger coming after me asking me if I was Vreede said I said yeah I think so I was dazed I didn't know what happened Denis shined a light around a bit VanVreede and Deisinger were in the Lake Gogebic area for the weekend fishing with Bernard Deisinger of White Lake Wis and John Monk Bryant Wis VanVreede said he saw someone lying on the ice What happened asked defense attorney Jonny Waara of Iron River I ran over to him and knelt down by a weeping VanVreede testified As family and friends wept in the gallery Judge Roy Gotham for a recess When testimony resumed VanVreede said he recalled leaving Gogebic Lodge Earlier testimony determined VanVreede and Deisinger left Gogebic Lodge about midnight after having four to five drinks They earlier had two drinks at man's Resort Bernard Deisinger and Monk both that VanVreede and Denis Deisinger fished in front of Monk's cottage on Lake See TRIAL Page 2 WARM WISHES ON A COLD MORNING LeeAnn Globe No one at Grand View Health Clinic in Hurley would admit to creating this outdoor art wishing Pam of Pence Wis a happy decade birthday It clinic lawn sometime overnight Some students exempted from MEAP tests H State board excuses students who don't speak English from tests LANSING Mich AP Schools can exempt students with limited English skills from state tests under a resolution passed unanimously Thursday by the State Board of Education The board directed the state Department of Education to develop an alternative to the Michigan Educational ment Program tests for English students But until that alternative is developed board members said the MEAP is equipped to measure English students It is educationally unsound unfair and demoralizing to proficient students to be required to take tests that they cannot read or the eight members said in a resolution Board members said they also were concerned because school districts will receive grades on test performance starting this year Under the plan which will go into effect in the 2003 school year students who have been in the United States for less than three years may be excluded from the English guage MEAP tests After three years all children must be tested in English under the federal No Child Left Behind Act which passed in 2001 Some exceptions can be made to that rule on a basis but only for a maximum of two years Board members said the department's new tests can either be in other in simplified English In their resolution board members said they were dent they met the requirements of federal law which requires schools to effectively measure the knowledge and skills of students In a 2000 report the U.S Department of Education said effective See Page 2 Big chill affects supply of gas 87 The Associated Press and the Daily Globe Staff The cold weather covering the Midwest has spread to a new location indoors Short supplies and tion problems have forced some Wisconsin natural gas utilities to ask customers to turn down the heat in their residences That hasn't happened on the Gogebic Range but several com- customers in the wood area have been asked to switch briefly from natural to fuel oil to ease the crunch The switch is outside the norm This is the first time February of 1996 that we had to ask our small commercial tomers to said Brian Ellwood of Xcel Energy We have different classes of customers Some of those tomers have contracts that on times when we need for them to do that they will interrupt vice They get a different rate On Tuesday because of a ple factors cold weather and also because of our contracts with suppliers a high demand was created We had to ask some of our large and small cial customers who are on that interruptible rate to switch to an alternate source of fuel Ellwood said he doesn't know whether it will happen again It's difficult to he said Among those who've been forced to switch fuel sources are the schools in Ironwood Wakefield the City of Ironwood and the Pioneer Park ments It's the first time in a couple of said Ironwood Area See GAS Page 2 Iraqi scientists refuse private interviews Associated Press An Iraqi man reads a newspaper in front of big wall portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad Iraq on Thursday The Iraqi government refers to the U.S goverment as an adminstration of evil and great Satan and with more than decade of and a potential new war looming between them Iraq's media seems bent on making the confrontation personal not just political BAGHDAD Iraq AP Three days ahead of a key report by arms tors Iraq says it still can't meet a key that Baghdad persuade its own scientists to submit to private interviews with the inspectors We did our best to push the Lt Gen Hossam Mohammed Amin the chief Iraqi liaison officer to the inspection teams said Thursday But they refused to make such interviews without the presence of Iraqi officials But deputy U.S Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz charged that Iraq had threatened to kill its scientists if they cooperated with weapons inspectors Meanwhile foreign ministers of six countries neighboring Iraq urged dad to cooperate fully with weapons inspectors to avoid a war as Germany France and Russia said they oppose a U.S attack The ministers from Turkey Syria Iran Jordan Egypt and Saudi Arabia met in Istanbul and urged Iraq to demonstrate a more active approach in providing mation on its weapons programs in full conformity with resolutions Germany's Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer on Friday echoed their call but said his country was concerned about the risks of a military venture German and French officials were out- raged Wednesday when U.S Defense Donald H Rumsfeld said they resented old Europe and said newer members of NATO would back the United States in a military strike Amin also reported no progress on another important request that Iraq allow American reconnaissance planes to assist the inspection effort Iraq said similar flights in the past had spied on Iraq's defenses and passed on the information to the CIA Chief arms inspector Hans Blix and 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