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4B Thursday, November 10, 2005 The Anniston Star Technical: 'A lot of our students have skills teachers just don't' routed to one of the five participating high schools, where a student is standing by to help solve the problem. It's the sort of thing adults say with an uncomfortable chuckle got a computer problem? Ask a kid for help. If grown-ups are uncomfortable with a statement like that, it might be because of its underlying truth. Kids today, after all, have grown up with computers. A 10-year-old fourth-grader, for example, has never known a time when the surf wasn't up on the World Wide Web.

Say to a teenager, and she's more likely to think than "pane of glass." "A lot of our students have skills teachers just don't have, because. they've grown up with computers." said Lisa Russell, director of technology for the Calhoun County Schools. There are more computers in schools these days than there are Continued from Page 1B teachers 2,200 computers in the 15 schools of the Calhoun County system. Russell has herself and a of seven to maintain all those machines and the servers and other equipment that connect them to the Internet. She also has help from a teacher at each school who is designated as a technology coordinator.

But the bulk of teachers' most common problems could be solved quickly if only a service was set up to help them. Enter the teens. Russell and Jenel Travis, another technology worker, applied for and received a federal grant that paid the $15,000 for hotline phones in each school and for the spiffy tablet computers like the one Finley was using Wednesday. The grant also paid for teacher training and for stipends for the technology coordinators at each school. Students in the help desk classes at each school are handpicked by their teachers.

They must be in the 10th grade or above, show an interest in technology, maintain at least a high average in their tech classes, and get the recommendation of three They've also got to be trustworthy, according to Cathy Clifton, who teaches technology classes at Saks High, including the student help desk. Students in the program often have the skills to do anything they want with a computer, so teachers must limit their access to systems that contain private student information such as grades or addresses. In addition to helping teachers with problems, the students spend time designing multi-media presentations or World Wide Web pages for teachers who want those resources in their classes but need a little help putting them together. Besides learning to solve computer problems, students are learning skills that will serve them in any job later in life. Clifton said.

"They're dealing with the public, answering the phone, and doing it professionally," Clifton said. FEMA: Riley gave advice for future relief Continued from Page 1B plicate effective preparation. which he says should be days ahead of a hurricane instead of hours ahead. Rather than serving military -style meals ready to eat, he suggested using a portable gen-. erator to keep open one grocery store in a town.

allowing evacuees to pick out their own food. That would buy the state a few days of time. he said. but isn't allowed by FEMA because the store is a private entity. Riley also defended his state's decision to perform criminal background checks on adult evacuees housed temporarily at several state parks.

FEMA advised the state not to do it. Riley said. but he rejected the advice. He said he believes two people with criminal backgrounds were identified and not allowed to stay at the park. FUNERALS TODAY Riley said he and Brown spoke three to six times a day after the hurricane.

He also talked to Homeland Security Michael Chertoff daily and President Bush at least three times, Riley said. Although Alabama was spared the kind of. devastation suffered by Louisiana and Mississippi, some lawmakers suggested the state's planning likely saved lives. Riley says he knows of no Katrina fatalities in his state. although two people died in a car accident the day it hit.

"We can learn a lot by what Alabama has done," said Rep. Bill Shuster, D-Pa. Despite his praise for federal officials, Riley had plenty of advice on how to improve communication among the various levels of government. He said several FEMA regulations com- Horace Dukes, 2PM, Anniston Funeral Services Elizabeth J. Hendon, 1PM, St.

Peters Episcopal Church Jake Highfield, 11AM, Jordan Funeral Home Ann W. Lipham, 2PM, Quattlebaum Funeral Home ALEXANDER Gadsden Funeral services for Barbara Alexander, 67, of Gadsden, AL will be announced by Goodson Funeral Home. Mrs. Alexander died Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at Riverview Hospital. BAILEY Anniston Funeral services for Willie Bailey, 57, of Anniston, AL will be announced by Goodson Funeral Home.

Mr. Bailey died Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at his residence. neral home. CATES BOWIE BLACK Gaylesville Funeral services for Mr. Jackie Lamar (Jack) Black, 61, will be 2:00 p.m.

Friday at Perry Funeral Home Chapel. Visitation 6-8 p.m. this evening at the fu- Anniston Mr. Andrew J. Bowie, 56, of Anniston, AL died Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at Stringfellow Memorial Hospital.

Model City Mortuary has charge of the arrangements. CAIN CAIN Anniston Memorial services for Mr. James Woolf Cain, 58, of Anniston, will be 2:00 p.m. Friday at Gray Brown-Service Chapel with Rev. Larry Riddle officiating.

The family will receive friends this evening from 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Mr. Cain died Tuesday, November 8, 2005 in Ohatchee, AL. Survivors include; his wife, Bonnie Ginn Cain, of Anniston; three daughters, Lisa Cain Preston, of Biloxi, MS, Tandy Cain and Shannon Cain Woodard, both of Anniston; seven grandchildren, Brock and Brandon Pledger, of Jacksonville, FL, Blake Woodard, Nathan and Hunter Cain, all of Anniston, Robber: Police have arrested 4 allegedly connected to string Russell said students also are learning to work as a team, even if they never see the other team members.

Students keep an online log of each call they receive, so if they're not able to solve a teacher's problem during one 50-minute class period, the students at the next school in the rotation can pick up where they left off. Students in the help-desk classes often are accustomed to helping others with computers. Chris Shaw, a 17-year-old senior who partner on the help desk Wednesday, said his family often turns to him when something does not compute. Before the help desk started, teachers often noticed students like Shaw, who knew their way around a hard drive, and recruited them for help. "If you ever let them know it.

it was an all-the-time thing." Shaw said, laughing. Now it's an all-the-time thing. but the students are getting some class credit for it. Continued from Page 1B previous robberies. "Basically he came in the back door and grabbed the guy who was washing dishes and stuck a gun in his face," the witness said.

"The back door was open, but it shouldn't have Anniston police have said that the recent string of robberies is the longest in two decades. The robbery Tuesday could bring the number in the sequence to 35. So far, police have arrested four suspects in connection with the string. A fifth suspect was arrested in connection with an Oct. 20 robbery at Cracker Barrel, but Oxford police have not: said whether that robbery is considered to be part of the chain.

A 24-year-old man who was arrested in connection with a Tuesday robbery at Norton's Express Mart in Jacksonville is being questioned about other robberies. Contact Jenny Bone Miller at or 235-3554. Background: 'A potentially explosive issue' A background check by evacuees at Lakepoint State of Michael E. Hanson. 33, for a sex offender and residing with convicted of second-degree FEMA camper with a woman until his arrest last month.

He fled Mobile when Katrina hit. The evacuees' names from being run through the FBI's mation Center, officials said. holds millions of individual tions for other offenses, along people wanted on suspicion crimes. PAYNE Continued from Piedmont Mrs. Lois M.

Payne, age 94, of Piedmont, died Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at Piedmont Health Care Center. A native of Cherokee County, Alabama, Mrs. Payne was born on October 16, 1915 the daughter of the late Martin King Terry and Lula Vincent Terry. She had lived the greater part of her life in Piedmont and was of the Baptist faith. She was preceded in death by her Clifford "Buster" Payne.

Survivors include two son; Wallace Payne, of Dalton, Georgia and Rick Payne, of Piedmont; two daughters, Sally P. Halladay, of Kernsville, North Carolina, and Shelba Holland, of Smyrna, Georgia; one sister-in-law, Lois Suttles, of Smyrna; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services for Mrs. Payne will be conducted on Friday, November 11, 2005 at 2 p.m. from the chapel of the Folsom-Mickelsen Funeral Home with Rev.

Don Henley officiating. Interment will follow in the Highland Cemetery. The family will receive friends this evening from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

The Folsom-Mickelsen Funeral Home of Piedmont has charge of the funeral arrangements for Mrs. Lois M. Payne. PEOPLES Anniston Funeral services for Addie Peoples, 60, of Anniston, AL will be. 1:00 p.m.

Friday at Anniston Funeral Services with Bishop Edward Thomas officiating. Burial will be at Eden Hills Cemetery. Mrs. Peoples will lie in state at the chapel until time of the services. Mrs.

Peoples died Sunday, November 6, 2005 at Regional Medical Center. She is survived by four sons, Bryant Collins Peoples, of Anniston, Alex Collins Peoples, of Montgomery, Rodricus Peoples, of Anniston and Steve Peoples, of Montgomery; one daughter, LaTangela Peoples Nelson, of Montgomery; four sisters, Ella Mae Johnson, Katie Rhoden, Harriett Wilson, all of Detroit, MI and Isabell Sturkie, of Bermington, WA; seven brothers, William Collins, of Ohio, Howard Collins, of Anniston, Donald Collins, of Florida, Larry Collins and Thomas Collins, both of Anniston, Ricky Collins and Mickey Collins, both of Lin- Page 1B Eufaula police on Park led to the arrest failure to register as minors. Hanson, rape. was living in a and two children told authorities he the state parks are National Crime InforThe FBI database records of convicwith warrants for of committing The FBI granted access to the database Sept. 2 for the purpose of doing background checks, said.

Maury Mitchell, director of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, which serves as the state's gatekeeper to the system. A federal official, Michael Waters, protective security adviser in the Birmingham district of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, had opposed the background checks. "I recommended that we not attempt to do this at all." he wrote in a Sept. 7 e-mail obtained by a' state newspaper.

No background checks were required for Hurricane Ivan evacuees from Baldwin County, Waters said. He described the background checks as "a potentially explosive issue given the existing issues that have already been raised." coln, AL. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers will be nephews and friends. Mrs.

Peoples was a life long resident and a member of Holy Hill Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Willie and Vadie Collins; her husband, Willie Peoples; and her daughter, Selica Collins. RAGLAND Anniston Funeral services for Mrs. Doris E. Ragland, 62, of Anniston, AL will be Friday, November 11, 2005 at 12:00 p.m.

at The Greater Thankful Baptist Church with Rev. P.Q. English officiating. Interment will be at Pine Grove Cemetery in Lincoln, AL. Mrs.

Ragland is survived by a devoted husband, Deacon Augustus Ragland; two sons, Steven L. Ragland, of Talladega, AL and Willie L. Ragland (Mary), of Anniston, AL; one step-son, Daryell Green, of Charleston, SC; a son-in-law, Rodney Fomby, of Anniston, AL; a God son, Sancheze Murray; one brother, Eddie Curry (Shirley), of Lincoln, AL; two sisters, Lucille Ragland (Alfonzo) of Cincinnati, OH, Sarah Brown (Elbert), of Ensley, AL; and nine grandchildren; her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ceola Wills, of Lincoln, AL; a loving caretaker, Cynthia Rouse; as well as a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her father, Eddie Curry and mother, Mary Curry; one daughter Nila Fomby; one sister, Louise Goldsby; and two brothers, Daniel Curry and Willie R.

Curry. Ervin Funeral Chapel has charge of the arrangements. TONOGAN Jacksonville MSG (RET) Anthony. A. Tonogan, 57, with K.L.

Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center directing. Burial will be at Punchbowl the National Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI. MSG Tonogan died Wednesday at Veteran's Hospital in Birmingham. Survivors include his wife, Mellie Hammonds Tonogan, of Jacksonville; a daughter, Michele L. Tonogan, of Atlanta, GA; two sons, David F.

Tonogan, Decatur, GA, Andrew K. Tonogan, of Jacksonville; a sister, Frances "Fay" Spencer, of Waipahu, HI; two brothers, Lawrence F. Tonogan, of Burlingame, CA, Robert Tonogan, of Honolulu, HI; one grandson, Gabriel Tonogan; three nieces and six nephews. MSG Tonogan was preceded in death by his parents Leo Margaret Tonogan and his brother John P. Tonogan.

He was a member of the NRA and affiliated with the MIA POW. He served two tours in Vietnam during his 20 years service of the U.S. Army in which time he received a Bronze Star Leaf clusters as well as numerous other awards and accommodations. WELDON Ashton and Chelsey Preston of Biloxi, MS; and one brother, John Courtney Cain, of Grant, AL. Mr.

Cain was born in Gadsden. He lived in Bynum and Anniston for the past 35 years and was preceded in death by his parents, John Cain, Sr. and Bennis Cain Atkisson. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to New Haven Baptist Church Building Fund or The American Cancer Society. CARLISLIE CARLISLIE Talladega Services for Thomas Owen (Pop) Carlislie, 75, will be 11:00 a.m.

Friday at Usrey Chapel with burial, 1:30 p.m. at Lee's Chapel Cemetery. Visitation 6-8 p.m. this evening at Usrey. CATES Louisiana Graveside service for Ross B.

Cates, age 81, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, November 11, 2005 at Anniston Memorial Gardens Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Chapel Hill Funeral Home Friday from a.m. Mr. Cates passed away Tuesday, November 8, 2005 at a care center in Lake Charles, LA.

Mr. Cates is survived by his daughter, Theresa Vines and husband, Donald, of Moss Bluff, LA; son, Ronnie Cates and wife, Julia Donna, of Gillis; sisters, Burton, Birmingham, AL, Evelyn Townsend and husband, Bill of Panama City, FL, Jerry Tharrington and husband, Ken, of Anniston, AL, Patricia Irwin and husband, Roy, of Alexandria, AL; grand- children, Jason Vines, Leslie Vines Trahan, Jacob Vines, Tanner Cates and Cody Cates; great granddaughter, Ava Trahan; dear friends, Leldon and Nobie Parton. Mr. Cates was preceded in death by his wife, Eva Cates and son, Larry Cates. Mr.

Cates was a native of Alexandria, and he had resided in Lake Charles, LA, since 1951. He retired as Vice President of Bico Pavers in 1990. He served as secretary of Ward 1 Gravity and Drainage and was a Notary Public. He served his country in the U. S.

Army and was a member of the Alexandria Masonic Lodge He enjoyed being outdoors especially taking care of his yard. The family request no flowers and in lieu, donations be made to Big Oak Boys Ranch, 5265 Jake Mintz Road, Southside, AL 35905. COUCH Jacksonville Funeral services for Crawford Franklin Couch, 87, will be Friday at 11:00 a.m. from the chapel of K.L. Brown Funeral Home and Cremation Center with Rev.

Darrin Whorton officiating. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday from 6-8 p.m. Mr. Couch died Tuesday at his residence. Survivors include his wife, Dorothy A.

Couch, of Jacksonville; two sons, Jimmie Couch, of. Anniston, Larry Couch, of Jacksonville; two grandchildren, Brandon Couch and Amanda Henry; one great grandchild, Cayla Couch; two nieces; one nephew. Pallbearers will be Brandon Couch, Reggie Henry, Gary Dempsey, Chris Dempsey, Buddy Ledbetter and Bobby Whorton. Mr. Couch was a WWII army veteran in the South Pacific.

He was a farmer and loved farming. He was preceded in death by his sister Avis Dempsey and a brother Garvin Couch. LIPHAM LIPHAM Newell Funeral services for Mrs. Ann White Lipham, 70, of Newell, AL will be 2:00 p.m. today from Quattlebaum Funeral Home Chapel.

Anniston Services for Mrs. Sarah Lynn Ogletree Weldon, 86, will be announced by Gray Brown-Service Mortuary. Mrs. Weldon died Tuesday at Regional Medical Center. Anniston Star Obituary Policy It is the policy of The Anniston Star to publish obituaries of local residents and former local residents.

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Payment is not accepted from family members or friends of the deceased. The Star reserves the right to edit obituaries. In 1 most instances the family's content lished and style will be pubin the form submitted to us. There are no limits on numbers of survivors, pallbearers, honorary pallbearers, or any other information the family wants included, so long as good taste a and judgment prevail..