Region MESSENGER-INQUIRER, Saturday. November 9. 2002 3C Dentist accused of wanton endangerment, arrested after leaving patient untreated Associated Press HARRODSBURG A dentist who was out on bond on charges that he left an anesthetized patient unattended was arrested again following a brief foot chase. Kentucky State Police drug enforcement detectives and Har-rodsburg officers arrested Dr. William Wittwer, 57, at noon Thursday near his office after reports he was acting irrationally.
Wittwer was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest, third-degree assault on a police officer and possession of a controlled substance while possessing a firearm. He remained in the Boyle County Jail on $10,000 bond Friday night Wittwer was arrested Oct. 31 and released on $5,000 bond after being indicted on one count of first-degree wanton endangerment. A patient alleged the dentist injected him with Novocain and left him unattended for nearly two hours. Jerry Braithwaite of Harrods-burg had an appointment with Wittwer at 4 p.m.
on Oct 24. Braithwaite's girlfriend, April Bottom, said she dropped Braithwaite off at the dentist's office at 4 p.m. and returned at 5 p.m. At 6 p.m., the receptionist told Bottom it would be at least another 20 minutes. Bottom went outside and saw the dentist talking to someone.
At 6:45 p.m. she found Braithwaite still in the dentist's chair, untreated. Everyone else appeared to be gone. After looking for the dentist, they called police and filled out a complaint i' Parents: Institute trains 200 parents a year 0 A (i ll ni a bsLA Associated Press Bill Clark of Midway presents Ramazan Otreshev, middle, a member of a Russian agricultural delegation a POWMIA flag during a ceremony at the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans War Memorial in Frankfort on Thursday. Clark was freed by the Russians from a RomanianGerman prison camp in August 1944.
Seeking ways to raise better crops also has led 1 0 Russians and their Kentucky hosts to a better understanding of one another. Russian farmers are gaining better understanding of U.S. Burton, for example, said she hopes to develop an adult mentoring program for freshmen at Daviess County High School who have been identified as at-risk students. This year, 60 of the school's incoming freshmen were identified as at-risk, she said. Each parent gets $500 to spend toward his or her project, Welsh said.
"Parents would serve as mentors to 10 or 15 kids to begin with," Burton said, "sort of like a 'Big Brothers, Big No parent leaves withoqt a renewed sense of importance, Welsh said. "It's amazing to come in here, even if you're involved in your school, and realize how much you didn't know," Welsh said. Mark Cooper, 691-7295, them," said Susan Law, 39, an Owensboro parent who serves on school councils at both Apollo High and Tamarack Elementary schools. "We're walking into their area of expertise, and some of them find that threatening," Clouse said. Most teachers and schools, however, recognize that parents are the key to progress and actively encourage parental involvement, Welsh said.
And the institutes are designed to equip parents with the tools to become useful partners with schools for change, she said. During the sessions, parents develop projects to take back to their schools to implement she said. The projects must Improve school achievement Parents identify priority needs based upon CATS and other data. Involve more parents through planning and implementation. Have a lasting impact on the school.
From Page 1C The parents learn how to interpret and use data from state assessments, how students learn differently, how they can be effective leaders and how to encourage other parents to get involved. The bulk of Friday's session involved the ins and outs of writing portfolios. "The main thing I've learned is how to read the (Commonwealth Accountability Testing System) scores and why it's important to test the kids," said Jahn Owens, 38, who has two children at Deer Park Elementary School. But most importantly, each parent learns how to open a dialogue with his or her school to question and shape the direction the school is headed, said Sharon Clouse, a parent from Glasgow. "One of the things we're really focusing on is having good conversations with schools," Clouse said.
On average, research shows that a parent has only 15 minutes of meaningful conversation with a teacher, Welsh said. "This process starts a dialogue and keeps people focused on what's needed in that school and how to get there," Welsh said. Some teachers are less than receptive to parents who seek to become more informed and more involved in the educational process. Burton said. "There are teachers who are reluctant to getting parents (involved)," Burton said.
"They feel we're invading in on their territory." "Change is scary for some of ULTIMATE A I .1 Duit Clark, a B-24 tail-gunner in World War II, was rescued by Russians from a German prison camp in Romania. Clark crossed the shadow of the memorial's sundial steps meant to symbolize "a walk across time" from the evening of the past to the morning of the future and handed the flag to Otreshev, who genuflected as he accepted. "It's a right touching thing," Clark said moments later, tears glistening. "I will do my best to tell people about what I have seen and about the Vietnam veterans' activities here," Otreshev said, with group facilitator Vladimir Lemkov of St Petersburg translating. on my part, will do my best to make this an eternal symbol.
I am planning to put it into our local museum, and we'll have a special place for this." that the fanners receive," Ledeny-ov said. Ramazan Otreshev, a farmer from Krasno dar, said that, although the technology and assistance might be new, the crops the farmers have seen aren't. Everything they've seen in Kentucky is grown in Russia, he said "even tobacco. But the production of tobacco in Russia is decreasing." On Thursday, however, the farmers and their hosts turned their attention to other matters as they visited the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. Several members of Rolling Thunder, whose mission is to focus attention on prisoner-of-war and missing-in-action issues, joined their newfound Russian friends.
A lone bagpipe played as Vietnam veteran Ron Netties presented a POWMIA flag to Bill Clark, a Midway horseman. Associated Press FRANKFORT Ten Russian farmers and their Kentucky hosts are doing more than learning how to raise better crops. They are getting a better understanding of each other. "We were really impressed by the technology and machinery on the farms," said Aleksey Ledeny-ov, who grows sweet potatoes, onions and carrots in Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad. The crop farmers' three-week trip to Kentucky was organized by the Division 10 Kiwanis Russian Bluegrass PEP Productivity Enhancement Program delegation in conjunction with the University of Kentucky.
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