Edition 6-13-05

Plant City Bike Fest
1st Sat of the Month

HUCK FINN JUBILEE
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June 17-19, 2005 Victorville, CA http://www.huckfinn.com/ 751-780-8810 Mark Twain "in Person" was a rare treat indeed. Mark Twain returns to the Jubilee and offers an encounter with America's greatest author and humorist through the considerable talents of Mike Randall. After 2000 performances, Randall is compared by some to be "...as good, if not better than Holbrook". Randall's re-creation of Twain begins Friday evening June 17th, at 8pm.

At the Huck Finn Jubilee, Merle Haggard headlines an impressive lineup of talent that provides more than 30 hours of country and bluegrass music.

A vegan lifestyle is becoming increasingly popular, and so is turning pets into vegetarians. Don't let anyone talk you into it. Putting your kitten on a vegetarian diet is cruel. The FDA says there's no such thing as a good vegetarian cat diet.

Unlike dogs, cats can't adjust to a low-protein diet. If your kitten is deprived of animal protein, his body will just rob its own tissue to satisfy its need. Some companies claim to make all-vegetable supplements to balance a vegetable-based diet, but there haven't been long-term or controlled studies to prove their safety. Besides that, no feeding trials have tested the palatability of the food.

Living a human vegan lifestyle takes a lot of resolve. If you feel so strongly about it that you need your pet to reflect your ethical belief, consider getting a bunny, a hamster, or a horse; something that doesn't need meat.

If you expect to add a feline friend to your family, spend some quality time with Kittens For Dummies, by Dusty Rainbolt.

The texture of your furnishings can brighten or darken a room. Glossy surfaces like satin, glass and tile reflect light and add brightness to a room. Surfaces like brick, carpet and burlap absorb light and make a room seem less bright.

Sun, June 12, 2005
Police arrest suspect in murder
By BOB HOLLIDAY and DEAN PRITCHARD, Staff Reporters
A 29-year-old man will appear in court tomorrow charged with Winnipeg's seventh homicide of the year.

Homicide investigators grabbed the suspected killer of Aaron Hannibal, 31, Friday afternoon near Cottonwood Road and Duluth Bay in Windsor Park, said police spokeswoman, Sgt. Shelly Glover.

Glover would not confirm street rumours that claim Hannibal was killed during a dispute between members of the Zig Zag Crew.

Street sources told The Sun that the victim and the accused were members of rival factions within the street gang that is closely associated with the Hells Angels. The dispute, said the sources, was over an attempt by Hannibal to muscle in on another gang member's lucrative drug territory.

Hannibal, stabbed 11 times in the upper chest, was buried last Monday in Ochre River. The hearse, carrying Hannibal's body to his home town, was escorted through the rain by several motorcycle-riding Hells Angels wearing their colours -- a winged death's head.

Witnesses saw Hannibal talking to another man around 6 p.m. June 2, shortly before he was stabbed behind a
7-Eleven at Talbot Avenue and Watt Street.

"This homicide does appear to be gang related," admitted Glover, adding the suspect was "known to police."

Glover said police are concerned about gang violence.

"In the last several months we have seen a number of incidents where violence has been a real concern and organized or gang-related activities are the subject of our investigations," she said.

Daniel Benjamin Kachcan, 29, has been charged with second-degree murder. He was detained at the Provincial Remand Centre.

Friday, June 10, 2005
Ex-deputy linked to Fla. slaying By Kimball Perry Post staff reporter Florida police are investigating a murder-suicide in which they believe a former Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy shot his girlfriend several times in the face and then killed himself.

Lake Mary, Fla., police responded to an apartment late Tuesday to find Gregory Rabanus, 33, dead from what they believe is a self-inflicted gunshot to his face.

Also dead in apartment 212 of the 740 Oakland Hills Circle complex was Megan Brake, 28, a Lake City native, Lake City Detective David Prince said Thursday.

"Both suffered gunshot wounds to the face, she multiple (shots)," Prince told The Post.

Rabanus, who retired from the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office after arrests on back-to-back nights in August, and Brake were boyfriend and girlfriend, Prince said.

"From the way the apartment was set up, it looked like they'd been in a relationship for some time," Prince said.

Rabanus was married to a former assistant Hamilton County prosecutor now in private practice in Cincinnati when he left for Florida following his Jan. 1, 2005, retirement from the Sheriff's Office, a disability retirement he received citing stress.

Inside the garage of Rabanus' Florida garage, Prince said, were two expensive motorcycle "choppers."

Rabanus was known for his involvement with motorcycles while in Cincinnati and, when he moved to Florida, he became involved with the Warlocks Motorcycle Club of Seminole County, immediately north of Orlando.

Rabanus, sporting long hair partially bleached blond, and a beard, also partially bleached blond, is pictured on the motorcycle club's Web site.

On it, the club calls itself "a serious hardcore brotherhood 1% motorcycle club who take pride in flying our colors and living life our way. This club is not for everyone but your support is needed and greatly appreciated.
Membership can be a long and demanding process, requiring pure dedication & loyalty. This is definitely not something everyone can fulfill. Membership is by invitation only!"

Rabanus left the sheriff's office after his August arrests:

He was accused - but ultimately acquitted following a jury trial - of groping the breast of a young woman in an Aug. 21 incident in Over-the-Rhine's Main Street entertainment district. The case has since been expunged from court records; The next night he was arrested after he came up behind a man in the same area and elbowed him in the back of the head. Before the case could go to trial, Rabanus accepted a plea deal that resulted in him being convicted of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and paying a fine.

"It's just a shame. He was a guy who had a good future with the Sheriff's Office and something happened,"
Rosenwald said. After those arrests, Rabanus was suspended from the Sheriff's Office.