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o.o.va n.omp,on Thrillsaekers make the long walk back up the tubing hili at Roy Blackwell Forest Preserve In WarrenvHle before entoylng yat another wild ride down. T _ photo ."

last year, and we haven't been able to set out and try it." A typical year usually brinSS about 39.5 inehes of snow to the OJicago area. About 15.6 inches had fallen this time last year) but only about 3.2 inchesfdl in aD of January 1990. This season, it

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has snowed 13.2 inches, and 10 of those have been this month, a weather service spokesman said. . .Mary Lynn Frank of Cary also was out With her family, but left the activity to her kids because she had hit I tree See Snow. PI. 1

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'Gulf crisis no honeymoon for couple By Debran Rowland

Some soldiers find religion in a fOllhole. Marcel Fraser and Paula Foley found each olher. Now, less than a month after their marriage, Ihey both find themselves facing military callups because of the Persian Gulf cmis. Mucel Fraser, 29, a Hanover Parle nalive and Itasca police officer, selVa with t.he BI4th Military Polic~ unit in Rosemont. Paul. Foley-Fraser, 32, is a resefvisl with the BUnd MP unit, also in

Rosemont. Both an: staff sergeants. She W1IlJ called to preparatory training at Ft. McCoy in Wisconsin on Jan. 6, one week after their wedding. He and his wife had made plans to honeymoon in Canada, but that tnp had 10 be canceled. "She was notified in early December that ther mi,ht be called up:' Ma~1 Fraser said. • And everybody \cq>t teUIn« us ,to cancel the wedding. Bul W'C said no WIY, evcn ir she had 10 go (IO Ft. McCoyl, . maybe she could come ba~k for the wedding. Wc wantcd to get mamed."

Monday is the oeaollne lur I~. voters to fde petitions to set • k4 . ferendom on the April ballot. Govern bOards have mon: two Wttks to adop resolution or ordinance to put a bind public-policy question on the btiIot. Donohue said the anticipated lawsuit ch~e the existing signature reQuirm. on grounds that other binding issues, 5 iI3 onc to change a county to an elo

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describes IS "I much more signili( change," reQuires only 500 Ugnatuft:!. get on the ball(){. The 10 pm;cnt requiremmt is ··a He, lean task to get done," he said. An Iltempt to get the requisite nun of signatures to have the single-men district issue/laced on the November I baJlot liule When o'1aniz.ers, inelu. · the Du Page Comity League of WOI Volers, were only able to collect .1 7,500 signatures, far short the rou 38,500 reQuired at the time. The peti. were never submittod to the county , lion board. They will be Mon~' Donohue said.

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The two mel in a foxhole at Ft. McCoy during training manueve~ in 1988, he said. They struck up a conversalion 8S 8 means of staying IIwake in the wee hours of the morning. A change 10 single-member distids That was several months after he had been supportod by the league of WOI returned from a six-year tour in West Voters as a WIly to get more ICCOUntal' Gennany, where he became a military poon the County Board. The oounty's Dc liceman. His wife, he said, grew up in the crat5, including Donohue, who r1IJ1 un Riverdak area and also servod In Wesl ce\.~lUlly for the board and for board cI Gamany iI3 an MP. man, see si~ber di.ruicts as a "We were I S minutes apart [in West of breaking the absolute grip on the b See Couple, by Debranby Rowland, PI ... regular Republicans.

Increased bus service on Route 223 could spell relief Some questions and some answers: Q-I Ret 10 my Job In the northwest .obllJ'bs ever)' day via Pace's Route 123. II', chaos. Then', only one bus enr)' 20 IItlnotes ud people palIh and shoye to IIqueue on at the A's Rhrer Road traJn stadon, ... hen Ihe route oriRillJltes. You hAve riden .laIIdlnl on top or the "oon, ~nt and bsck. You. han 0lhts: You have pickpockets. They spend all thl! money promoting public lransportadon, and co.pulu around . Elk Gmye Villalle enCOUTtlle their employ~s to U5e It, and then the semce Is lousy. I've coneplalned, bot It d~n'l SHm 10 do IItllCh good.

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Getting around Gary Washburn Got • commuting question? Sre II problem on the area's rollds, trains or buses? Getting around will liddress topics of gcncr.' interest. Write to Getting around, do OIicago Tribune, 4JJ N . Michigan Ave., OJicago, 111. 60611 .

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misunde~landing with its union bus drivers prevented carli« action, but more service will be added at .L_ . :_a nr 1\", hut "oick"-when driver assignments

are made. ThaI's in March. Whether the increased servia:: gives a lot of reij. remains to be secn. Buses will nln every I S minult instead of every 20. But hours of service also wiU I cKp'anded for people: who work afternoon and cvenin shifts in the northwest suhurbs. Instead of ending !he runs al 7:30 p.m., buses win continue unlil I a.m. Q-I had tn deliver my wire 10 Ihe new Grcyhoen bus . depot In downtown Chicago one recent Satur.... mom In!!. II wu my first trip to Ihe new lermin.I, a" I h.d • devil of • time trying 10 find It. Then wcre " signs on Ihe approaches, and a 101 or the strKI around the depot are one-w.y. In my conruslody wound lip on one or them headed In' the wrong

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adopled 10 collect partial dues from nOfl-members mixl lhe legaJ guidelines set by the U.S. ' Supreme Court, a rc:dcral appeals court has ruled. . TIlt! au has been attempting since 1981 to 001- . led from teachers and others woo arc nol members of the union to help defray the costs of colJective blJiaining qmements that also benefit them. In a 1986 decision, the hiKh court said the au's earlier drorts were unconstitutional. Under the court's guidelines, a union has to speD out which costs it sedu to pasS on to non-members, allow for impartial procedures for chal1enging the fees and put any disput~ fees in escrow pendin& an outcome.

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Iy from the county's longstandin& Practice of routinely renewing no-bid contracts for "profc:ssional services." "It's the only honest and aboveboard way to operate," said Republican Majority leader John Annerino, onoe 'a n opponent of the biddill8 chan~ . In the past, the board tw handed out no-bid contracts for a VI.t1ety of services, l1Ing;ns !'rom audits to health insunm<Je. Under state law, the: oounty must ~ sealed bids for most purchases but is permitted to suspend the rule on "professional :iervica." "We an: 80inJ to illCCk. bids or proposals whencva'. we can ," said Mary Ann Gearhart (R-Crete), ' chairwoman of the board's Executivt: Committee.

Couple By Debran Rowland Germany] for. couple years and never knew it," Fraser ~aid, Fraser, now a Darien resident, graduated' from HolTman Estates H~g,h School and then entered the mIlitary,

Today, he describes himself as I. them together; and Fraser Yy& he "different kind of soldier" than he ' . sees some irony in the fact that was back then. now the military has drawn them "( went into the military to lrow Continued from' apart. ,ale I up, and ( think it helped me to ""m prayin& thlt my wife will ,row up," he said. be Ible to dQ her month~, if "r' l.Iw.ys wanted to be • police she does get called up, and that, if officer.·r became I military police • get called up, I will be able to do officer to gain a way to become a my six months," he said. "And we civilian police officer." will both come back. and 80 on It was the military that brought with our lives." By Debran Rowland

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