fan - Donnell
illiam Archi-
. Youn er fr the of 8 to 11
ye come out from esd y thru
Friday to p y roc et ball on the band
field t Benton Harbor High School.
ety regulation and other
. ctio the team ha been unable to
u F strop F·eld.
ccording to
to practice
tember.
e b u our equipment
not immedi tely re " Hur-
noted. "If it had not been for Com-
E ols, ho pports
our effort, ould not have our
equipment at all. Formerly the Benton
Harbor Recre tion Dep ment pro ided
e sport for children."
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The men are hopeful th t in the up-
coming football son of 1983 nser
ch the Poli e Athletic League or
meone el will represent the team.
'Our goal . to have two dditional
teams for 12 to 13 year old as ell.
Also e plan to be a part of the are
Ro etball team league' he said.
"Th ba· purpo of the team is to
te cit the fundamental of football and
ortsmanship. The criteria .for lection
on the team is simply interest in learning
more bout football, , Hur . said.
Idea for forming the team ori&inated
hen Donnell Hur . , John Sam Jr.,
and illiam .Archibald got together'-
becau they enjoyed sport in high
hool, (John Sams in college), and al
on local te as uIt. Hu . also
co che d man e littl league b ball
in the summer.
In the ord of r. Hu
to encou e parent) community,
hool per nnel to become more in
el ed in the student ctivitie that
eep our children busy on a dally b lc."
mate calls attention to injustices
De S':
I'm inmate t the Berrien County
Correctional f ility, and I feel it' time
tit t th public be m de are of me
of th . [u ices that many of u (in
m tes) and others have to indure. Pri-
marily due to inadequ te al a . stance
d ludicrou anipu lion of personal
ju i ain Y accu d previou]
offender.
y particular ituation is no un
common to many offenders and their
problem. e do not get a fair and
prudent trial here in Berrien County.
It h ppen time and times am.
Generally it' not th t ob . us to the
rmal layman to belie e that a per n
of a crime, tried by jury of hi
peers ould not receive ju t and
f ir trial.
Let m be the fir to inform you
that it doesn't al ys happen. For
my If and many other the heel
of ju tice don't y mo e correctly.
I'm pre ntly ·tin ntencin on
C .C. . carryin concealed e pon
ch The circum ances involved
quite long and involved
ere many mitig ting circum-
I found guilty on liter lly
cireurnst tl evidence. Th jury liter
m d that I guilty of havin
ed e pon (gun) even though
r f nd ith one or in po
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'on of one.
I more or le found guilty on
presumption. They h no tangible
evidence t . If any person standing
trial is pre med guilty without adequate
proof, our judkial sy tern i in dire need
of renovation.
I'm pre ntly a aiting ppeal on this
and I'm If red that ju ice ill
be seen in regards to my innocent.
I'm are that freedom of the pre
one of our constitutional right but
hen person or per ns myself are
found guilty on circumstanti evidence
and trivial presumptions they mu take
the derers outcome from incomplete
d inadequate reports ritting in the
n sp per. It h tr umatic personal
and emotional tb k. It ems to me
that the local pre . never obligated
to offer apolog:ie to people ho are
found guilty and ritten out, and then
when the person are legally eleared
of all ch rge they are forgotten bout
by the local pre . I feel it's time for a
rec nized change. I'm an innocent
man of this charge d n ed e help
to prove it.
I'm a are thi change on't
com over night, but hop this is a start,
and mething can be done bout my
ca . Sincerely
Clarence ott I
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Finley rite e
for Thur day
Funeral rvice for Donald Finley,
Sr. ill be held Thur ay, at 1 p.m.
at.Union emorial A .E. Church.
Finley a Ben n Harbor youth wor er
d former city policeman died ovem
ber 13 in Berrien General Hospital
here he had remained in com ince
being hit by a car in front of Palmer'
grocery ore on . Street, Augu t 15
1980.
Burial will be in Crystal Spring
Cemetery and the ake will be edne
d v, from 7 to 8 p.m. at Robbin Bro
thers Funeral Home.
Finley city police om r
be een 1 70 and 1976 when he w
1 id off. Prior to hi police service,
had been fireman.
Finley' rvived by hi ife Irm ;
son Donald Jr.; ich el:
DO AID LEY
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ep daughter Phyllis; his mother r .
ina Finley; twc si ers - erly Clar
and Bonita Herring; three brother -
illiam and Gile Robin n of Benton
Harbor and Vincent Robinson of Chi .
go.
00
q
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commi . n, the commission demands
it be written in cific.
The commi . n al mu direct city
ff to monitor City Venture complianc
with a specifi list. The City. mu al
be prepared to utilize its own resources
should City Venture ba a ay from
cific, legit mate contr t.
ccept the vaguene of the City Venture
langu e. proclaimed pro te busine
cce entrusted ith CET mon y
e ould exp ct more from them.
The city ne ds more.
It's a surpri to u th t the member
of t e Priv te Industry Council ould
Give your furnace
an energy-saving
partner. /
wiUgive
I
ecial pro-
gr for parent held the
drop-out rate for participant to 15
percent for the last academic year,
according to th tate Board of Edu -
lion. Of 879 dent in eight pilot
prOlfam around the te, 133 dropped
out, the board said. � reported th t 148
udent received their high hool
diplom , 243 returned to regular cl
325 remained in the special program,
d 45 ent on to college. The program
. designed to help adolescent under-
and and cope with the challenge of be
a youth, parent and student an at
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once. It include cia! and mental
health rvice, and education in nutri
tion, child development and being a
parent. The eight program have been
a arded continued te fmanc' for
the current hool yeu, but 70 percent of
their money comes from local rce
the board said. The program are offered
in Detroit, Highland Park, Kalamazoo
Lansing, the Leslie Area Schools, Oxford
Public Schools, ayne County Inter
mediate School D· rict, and the il-
10 Run Consortium, hich· elude
illo Run, Ann Arbor and Ypsil ti
schools,
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