This document is a newspaper containing local news stories and event listings for Appleton, Wisconsin. The top stories include: 1) A 5K run/walk for cancer taking place that morning. 2) A ballet spring concert celebrating 50 years of instruction. 3) A high school show choir performance that evening. Other brief articles announce an oil spill containment effort, an evacuation in Times Square from an abandoned cooler, and a review of emergency procedures after a child's death.

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1.BUNDLE UP: Bad
weather or not,the Sole
Burner 5K walk/run kicks
off from City Park inApple-
ton.Fundraiser forAmeri-
can Cancer Society.9 a.m.
2.BEAUTIFUL DANCE: The
MakaroffYouth Ballet spring
concert at UW-FoxValley
celebrates 50 years of
Makaroff family ballet
instruction.$12.7 p.m.
3.JUST LIKE‘GLEE’:
Vintage,the Neenah
High School show
choir,performs at the
school’s auditorium.
$10.7:30 p.m.
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Business..................A-8
Classified ................C-1
Community..............B-1
Crossword................C-6
Living Well............Inside
Local........................A-3
Obituaries................B-4
Sports......................D-1
Vitals ......................A-2
Weather ..................B-5
Our TV schedule, comics,
advice columnists, bridge
column, horoscope and
religion coverage are in
today’s LivingWell section.
MORNING TICKER
Headlines from around the nation
and around the world
æ OIL SPILL: Containment box
placed over leaky well: Crews
lowered a 100-ton concrete and
steel vault onto ruptured well in
the Gulf of Mexico.Workers will
need to wait 12 hours before
attaching a pipe and hose to
funnel oil to tanker./ B-3
æ TERRORISM: Scare emptiesTimes Square:
Less than week after failed car bombing,police
officers evacuatedTimes Square Friday for an
abandoned cooler — full of water bottles./ B-3
æ EMERGENCY SERVICES: DC officials review
procedures after girl’s death: Fire and emergency
medical services chief starts internal review after
2-year-old dies because transport refused./ B-6
Post-Crescent wire services
LOCAL & STATE: Obey has lots
of campaign money to share / A-3
COMMUNITY: Thumbs up
and down in the news / B-1
t SPORTS: Milwaukee wins
opener against Arizona / D-1
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INSIDE TODAY
By Ryan J. Foley
Associated Press writer
MADISON — Some parents accused
Gov. Jim Doyle of disappointing their chil-
dren and shortchanging the middle class
after he announced his signature college
aid program would favor families with in-
comes of less than $80,000, e-mail mes-
sages show.
“Thank you for the let-
down Governor Doyle. You
have failed my child and all
those like her who are work-
ing hard and doing the right
things,” one parent wrote, ac-
cording to e-mail messages
obtained by The Associated
Press through the open
records law.
Doyle had promoted the Wisconsin
Covenant program since 2006 as a way to
motivate high school students to excel and
make college affordable.
For years, the governor was vague
about the financial component even as
tens of thousands of students signed up.
On March 1, he released details.
Under a rule expected to be approved
by the Legislature, students with family in-
comes of roughly $25,000 or less will re-
ceive annual grants of $2,500; those from
families earning roughly $40,000 or less
will get $1,500; and those with incomes of
up to roughly $80,000 will get $1,000. All
others, an estimated one-third of partici-
pants, will be awarded $250 grants.
The income brackets are estimates, and
factors such as the number of family mem-
bers, the number of children in college
and assets will be considered, administra-
tion spokeswoman Carla Vigue said.
“These grant amounts ensure that every
scholar is recognized without overspend-
ing” the $25 million per year lawmakers
have set aside for the program, she said.
Many of the critical e-mailers were
angry about the income guidelines, saying
children were being punished because of
their parents’ success, and felt they had
been misled.
Families
upsetover
Covenant
E-mails show anger about
Doyle’s college program
Post-Crescent photos by Wm. Glasheen
BARBARA WING (right) is consoled by her sister Nancy Prehn while Scott Schmidt speaks Friday during his sentencing in Outagamie
County Court in Appleton. Schmidt, who killed Wing’s daughter, Kelly Wing Schmidt, was ordered to serve life in prison.
Scott Schmidt sentencing
‘She’s going to miss
marriages,births’
Schmidt,convictedofkillinghiswife,won’tbeeligibleforparoleuntilhe’s79
SCOTT SCHMIDT spoke to his dead wife
in court Friday, saying “I loved you more
than life itself.”
ReadersidentifyFoxCities’roughestrailcrossings
By Ed Lowe
Post-Crescent staff writer
APPLETON — Consider
yourself warned about that
bone-jarring, alignment-wreck-
ing railroad crossing of S.
Mason Street, just south of Jef-
ferson School.
The bright orange traffic
signs posted by the city suggest
no one’s trying to ignore the
potential danger to people and
vehicles posed by what Post-
Crescent reader Bob Kools de-
cried as the “worst of the
worst” of the rough railroad
crossings in the Fox Cities
area.
The sign facing north warns
of a “DIP.” To vehicles ap-
proaching from the south, it’s
a “BUMP.” Either way it’s a
pain for drivers.
“Does the railroad company
suggest we stop and gently nav-
igate the tracks, or that we fly
over them?” asked Mary Poul-
son, 80. She was speaking
more figuratively than sarcasti-
cally, it turns out.
“I just sail over them now,”
Poulson said Tuesday. “It
seems a little less damaging to
the car than going tire by tire.”
Poulson is among nine P-C
readers who reported the S.
Mason Street rails as the area’s
By Jim Collar
Post-Crescent staff writer
APPLETON — Three gunshots
fired at point-blank range last year
didn’t just remove a mother from the
lives of five children, Outagamie
County Judge John Des Jardins said
Friday.
The murder of Kelly Wing Schmidt
at the hands of her estranged hus-
band, Scott Schmidt, also stole the
motherhood role she cherished.
“Kelly has been deprived of her
five children by the flash of jealous
rage,” Des Jardins said.
Schmidt, 39, received his mandato-
ry life sentence during a Friday hear-
ing in Outagamie County Court. Des
Jardins ruled that Schmidt would be
eligible to apply for parole release in
40 years.
A jury in March found Schmidt
guilty of first-degree intentional homi-
cide, first-degree reckless endanger-
ment and bail jumping. Schmidt was
arrested on April 17, 2009, after
shooting Wing Schmidt in the drive-
way of the home they once shared on
E. Edgewood Drive in Grand Chute.
He also shot and injured his mother-
in-law Barbara Wing.
Des Jardins said punishment was a
key aspect of his sentencing decision
based on the pain, anguish and tor-
ment Schmidt inflicted on the many
who loved Wing Schmidt.
On the Web
æ See photos, watch the replay of
Scott Schmidt’s sentencing and
view other documents online at
www.postcrescent.com/schmidt
shooting.
Doyle
See CROSSINGS, A-7
See SCHMIDT, A-6