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Scott Properties Obituaries: Rose Kiyomi Nakamura had lived in Monterey County for 56 years2C i tr? Your key to Sunbelt Properties. 484-6621 Herr for all voiir ttittt nwdi. FRIDAY July 25 2003 Californian www.thecalifornian.com MIKE NEMETH, CITY EDITOR Phone: 754-4280; Fax: 754-4293; E-mail: mnemethsalinas.gannett.com Wife to face Mnirdler Mai. DEFENSE CLAIMS STABBING NOT INTENTIONAL What's next Jamie Cintron, who is charged with killing her husband, is scheduled to appear in a Salinas courtroom July 29 for setting of trial. Jamie Cintron was arrested on July 13.

wife unintentionally killing him July 13 by stabbing him in the leg, the wife's defense attorney said Thursday. Jamie Cintron, 24, was arrested by Salinas police about 5:50 p.m. in the couple's home at College Apartments on the 600 block of Archer Street after police said she admitted to stabbing her husband, Jonathan. Cintron is being held in Monterey County Jail on $1 million bail In a preliminary hearing, Angela McNulty said Cintron meant to stab her husband. But Cintron's defense lawyer, Tom Worthington, contends the stabbing was unintentional that Cintron only wanted to scare her husband.

"She found e-mails on the computer that made her angry with her husband," Worthington said. "They were to a paramour, another woman." After Cintron discovered the e-mail on the couple's E-mails to another woman sparked attack, lawyer says By Kelly Nix The Californian An argument that began over a husband's e-mail messages to another woman ended with his computer, located in Jonathan Cintron's parents' apartment next door, she confronted her husband, Worthington said. The two got into a pushing match and eventually took the argument back to their apartment, he said. After her husband would n't give her the keys to the car, Cintron went to the kitchen and grabbed a knife, Worthington said. As Jonathan Cintron was sitting on the couch in the living room, his wife stabbed him, he said.

See WIFE, Page 2C Superior Court Judge Robert F. Moody ruled there was enough evidence to try Cintron on murder charges. Deputy District Attorney Planning improvements for middle schools fh SOUTHERN I VIEWS PollyKennedy Payne enjoyed variety of Navy -i --h I 7: a 4 t'i'tt'-t- 11 r. i j.iV!fc. v.

i 7, I -A y- 7 Datelines Compiled from staff reports SALINAS Teenager injured by a shot in park A teenager was shot at a park near a school Thursday evening, Salinas police reported About 635 the victim was sitting with a friend on a bench at a park near Cesar Chavez school on Towt Street when a man approached the two and began talking, police said. After the man spoke, he shot at the victim and his friend twice. The victim was shot once in the lower body, police said. The victim was taken to a local hospital for treatment Police said his wound did not appear to be life threatening. CASTROVILLE Deputies report drive-by shooting A Castroville man was shot once in the right buttock Wednesday night, according to Monterey County sheriffs deputies.

About 9:50 p.nL, Anthony Rodriguez Diaz was on the 10000 block of Merritt Street when passengers from a car yelled gang challenges at him. Two men shot at Diaz, deputies said. Diaz was taken to a local hospital by family members. He was treated and released, deputies said. MONTEREY Presidio and city open two displays Presidio of Monterey Museum and the city of Monterey has added two new displays, which will be open through September.

One display details how early Spanish settlers relied on local mushrooms for food, and another celebrates the establishment of the American Presidio. The museum is open to the public at no charge, off Private Bolio Road in the Lower Presidio Historic Park. Information: 646-3991. SALINAS Center to offer crisis line training The Women's Crisis Center will offer crisis line volunteer training beginning Monday, Aug. 1L The 50-hour curriculum is creden-tialed by the state Office of Criminal Justice Planning.

Classes will meet Monday and Wednesday evenings, 6 to 9 piiL, and three Saturdays from 9 am to 5 pjiL, until Sept 15. For application and information, call Michele Laurel, Volunteer Coordinator, at 757-1002. MONTEREY COUNTY Farr plans three town-hall meets U.S. Rep. Sam Farr (D-Carmel) has announced his annual town-hall meetings schedule: Gonzales: Wednesday, Aug.

13, 630 to 830 pm, Gonzales City Hall, 117 Fourth St Directions: 675-5000. Salinas: Thursday, Aug. 21, 630 to 830 p.m., Salinas City Hall Rotunda, 200 Lincoln Ave. Directions: 758-7381. Seaside: Monday, Aug.

25, 630 to 830 p.m., Seaside City Council Chambers, 440 Harcourt Ave. Directions: 899-6200. SCOn MACDONALDTHE CALIFORNIAN Karen Luna, right, manager of facilities and planning for the Salinas Union High School District, explains Thursday work to be done at Harden Middle School to, from left, Superintendent Fernando Elizondo, Sherrie Payne, Lupe Brambila and Howard Darington. Panel views renovation plans Background In November, voters passed Measure with a 68 percent approval vote. The $37 million bond for the Salinas Union High School District will help build a new middle school and renovate four existing middle schools.

Measure money to pay for upgrades By Glenn Cravens The Californian On Thursday, the Measure bond oversight committee toured four Salinas middle schools about to undergo renovation. The members joined Salinas Union High School District Superintendent Fernando Elizondo and facilities manager Karen Luna to look at how the schools will be remodeled with funds from the $37 million bond passed in November. The state requires school districts that pass bond measures to form an oversight committee to monitor construction and make sure the bond money, paid by property owners, is spent as intended. "The need is great (for renovations)," Elizondo said. "The work to improve the schools is happening today." The first stop was Harden Middle School, where committee members nearby, but we've learned that the growth of Salinas is going (north)," he said, adding that the district has not purchased the property yet.

The last stop was at Washington Middle School, where Luna focused mostly on the state of the bathrooms. She first showed a rundown girl's restroom, then a remodeled restroom complete with motion-sensor flushing and hand dryers. The stalls also have walls which can resist most graffiti learned there will be nine more classrooms and three laboratories, a locker room, expansion of the cafeteria and DSL Internet service installed throughout the schooL At La Paz Middle School, Luna held a design map that showed two new multi-classroom buildings to be located at the front of the school. On the way to El Sausal Middle school, members also saw the location of a new middle school and high school to be built on 75 acres near Boronda Road in northeast Salinas. The two schools will share athletic facilities and classrooms, Elizondo said.

"There aren't any houses Second of two parts Perhaps one component of this crusader for town improvement is her background. Greenfield resident Scottie Payne was born and raised in Ohio, attended nursing school at Saint Luke's in Cleveland. "In 1944 1 went into the Navy," she said. "In one of our classes, we had career nurses speak to us, the war was going on, and it sounded good to me." Her first assignment was at Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia; her second was at San Diego Naval Air Station. "I went to San Diego in May of 1946," she recalled.

"I worked in the GI ward, the eye wards, the dependents ward (mother's and babies), the outpatient clinic. I think I liked the variety of the outpatient clinic the most." "There were some peculiarities," she said. "I remember we were confined to the base. There were several ships coming in with wounded from Europe. The ships were arriving at the shipyard, and they were bringing the wounded in by ambulances.

"My friends and I stood at the corner watching all these ambulances, and I will never forget, one of my friends said, 'We can always tell our grandkids about our war time, standing on a corner watching the ambulances go "That was the year they invented penicillin," she recalled. "At that time, you had to mix it up and put it in syringes. You'd get it all mixed up and give it to all the patients throughout the hospital every four hours, and by the time you did that, you had to start all over again." Payne's commander was one of only five women commanders in the United States. "Her name was Miss Bunte, she was tiny but she ran a tight ship," Payne recalled. The dining room at the nurse's quarters was elegant, she said, with linen table cloths, sterling silver, beautiful china and crystal A gong sounded when the meal was ready.

Following service in the Navy, Payne worked for Dr. Solnion and then did home health care for a patient who had suffered a heart attack. She married in 1947. Her husband, a Navy man, had to spend a month overseas so she returned to work at a clinic until having her first baby in 1948. After she See KENNEDY, Page 2C 'I feel very encouraged by the response from such a diverse .1 County's refinement group starts slowly Sergio Sanchez, city councilman Panel to make recommendations for general plan What's next The Monterey County general plan Refinement Group next meets Aug.

1 at the county leadership center, 2354 Garden Road, Monterey. Community meet pleases Sanchez City councilman hears comments from residents How to help Salinas residents interested in forming a Neighborhood Watch group should call police Sgt. Don Cline at 758-7247. assurances from other panel members that there's no monolithic, pro -growth majority on the panel "There's a lot of misapprehension out there about who's aligned with whom," said Sheryl McKenzie of the Monterey County Association of Realtors. "I strongly resent being put in one box and one box only," said Rene Boskoff of the Monterey County Hospitality Association.

At one point during the laborious discussion, north county environmentalist Mari Kloeppel said, "The trust level in this room is terrible." The main sticking point was coming up with a working definition of consensus a task that had one panel member and an audience member reading from dictionaries. The group finally decided consensus would be achieved if all members at least give lukewarm approval to an issue. By Larry Parsons The Californian A community panel seeking accord in the battle over Monterey County's new general plan sputtered Thursday toward the starting line. For most of its second three-hour meeting, the 30-member general plan Refinement Group struggled to reach agreement on how it would agree to agree. Whether the panel comprised of several groups bitterly at odds over the 20 -year growth plan accomplishes its goal remains to be seen.

"We're going to have to start with small issues to see if we get anywhere," said Marit Evans of the Toro-River Road Residents Association. Because of the divisive, 4-year-old debate over the general plan, the Board of Supervisors created the Refinement Group in June. Its instructions: Develop recommendations on contentious issues by September. But groups who support the proposed plan's tight restrictions on rural development contend they are heavily outnumbered on the panel by pro -growth business, real estate and agricultural interests. "This group was out of whack to start with, and it's gotten wackier," said John Dalessio of the Carmel Valley Association.

Those fears brought By Ethan Daniel Lindsey The Californian At times, Councilman Sergio Sanchez was forced to raise his voice into the microphone to quiet the cacophony of complaints from District 1 residents Thursday at Frank Paul Elementary in east Salinas. Concerns ranged from gang violence to slow response to issues such as substandard dwellings and vehicles in front yards. But by the meeting's conclusion, Sanchez sounded 0BITUARIES2C optimistic with the turnout of about 50 residents and the feedback they gave him during the scheduled town hall meeting. "I feel very encouraged by the response from such a diverse community," Sanchez said. "The best way for us to bring these issues forward and get things done is to work as a group." See SANCHEZ, Page 2C Thomas Hayward Jones Irvin'Mac'McBride Rose Kiyomi (Masuda) Nakamura Keith Arnold Nicks CasimiroO.Sabado Sidney 'Bill' Schloemer.