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She was an angel," May said in the July interview. "I'll never be right again. We can't let Brieana die in vain." Surbeck granted Judi Noe credit for 265 days in jail. Indiana grants inmates one additional day of credit for every day they serve on good behavior, which means Noe could be released from prison in less than two years, an Allen County Superior Court clerk said. "Eight years is as good as it gets? That's ridiculous," May told The Journal Gazette in a February story.

After proceedings, May described the sentence as absurd and said the sentence was not enough time for "a baby killer," the Journal Gazette reported. May also lodged several threats against Noe and said he does not believe it was a coincidence that Noe drowned Brieana on Father's Day, the newspaper reported. May told the Daily Press Allen County Superior Court Judge John F. Surbeck Jr. sentenced Judi Noe on March 28 to eight years in prison but suspended three years and ordered her to complete three years of probation, according to court records.

During probation, Judi Noe must complete a mental health treatment program, regularly take prescription medications and attend counseling sessions required by the program. A Brighton man said an Indiana judge's sentence against his 2-year-old daughter's killer her mother is "absurd." Judi Noe, 35, of Fort Wayne, admitted to her attorney that she drowned her 2-year-old daughter, Brieana "Breezy" Jaide Noe, in a bathtub last year because voices told her to hold the toddler in place to rid her of evil spirits, reported The (Fort Wayne, Ind.) Journal Gazette. Brieana was found dead in her mother's apartment on July 7, 2004, after a family friend called 911. Police believe she had been dead since about June 19. Judi Noe pleaded guilty but mentally ill to an amended charge of reckless homicide for her daughter's death.

She was initially charged with felony battery, which carries a prison term of 20-50 years. CCDaro auction on the move After numerous venue changes, controversial sale set for Mason Think small, -dream' large Young builders craft miniature mansions in class TfcV 3 1 r- i I V- By Susan Demas DAILY PRESS ARGUS Easy come, easy go. Facing legal wranglings with. Handy Township over zoning ordinance violations, Gary Gray has moved his Ku Klux Klan auction Sunday outside Livingston County, again. Now bidders will have to travel to Mason, a Lansing suburb civil-rights leader Malcolm once called home.

Fellow auctioneer Jeff Taylor offered his facility, the Cobblestone Events Center, 205 Mason St. 35 miles west of Howell. It was an offer Gray couldn't refuse, even if it meant changing locales for a fourth time. The auction will now begin at 11:30 a.m. "If people at Handy Township are uncomfortable, why not go where people are comfortable with it?" Gray said, chuckling.

"See, I am loved by people." Taylor, who has worked with Gray on other auctions, heard about the Ole Gray Nash Auction owner's ongoing problems to secure a site for his sale of Nazi, KKK, Black Panther and South African apartheid-era paraphernalia. The auction fits in well with Photo by ALAN WARDduv press atous Among the items for sale at Sunday's Ole Gray Nash Auction sale of controversial material are musical scores from "Commie Lies," "Fascist Threat" and "The Face Behind the Mask." Mason's two-block antique trict featuring 12 shops and 100 dealers, he said. Continued on page 4 By Christopher Nagy DAILY PRESS ARGUS Whoever said there are no affordable homes in Livingston County isn't looking hard enough, especially in the Brighton area. Of course, you might have to wait another 10 to 15 years until the sixth-grade students' in Bonnie Kelly's Exploring Architecture class at Maltby Middle School get their builder's licenses and start their own projects. However, once they do, they'll probably be able to bring in homes somewhere between $100,000 and $160,000.

At least that's what they've been able to do theoretically in a nine-week class that had them design and build scale models of their dream homes, financing each project along the way. "This is the third year we've Continued on page 4 Developer envisions village in the making Photo by GILLIS BENEDICTqmlv press arsus From left, Maltby Middle School sixth-grader Ashton Gangnler, 12, works on a doghouse for a classmate near the home he built in class while Tommy LaChance, 12; NickYuhasz, 11; and Johnnie Clifford, 10; study his home. Longtime official is 'a homegrown product' Oceola Township -OUR- By Lon Medd DAILY PRESS ARGUS Developer Todd Wyett feels he's barely scratched the surface on a development several years in the making. Right now, the southern comers of Latson Road and M-59 are nothing more than vacant land with a little bit of dirt moved around. "Come back in three years and you'll be shocked," Wyett said.

The development envisioned for that comer is being called the Oceola Village Center, a mixture of homes and businesses that will not look like another strip mall development, according to Wyett, but will resemble a downtown. "It's what the community asked for," he said. "They asked us to develop a village for Oceola so they can have their own identity. This will include all sorts of things you'll find in a typical downtown." The plan was hatched when the late Joe Richards, who was then the township supervisor, approached Wyett about a plan to give Oceola Township residents something they've never had. If residents want- By Susan Demas DAILY PRESS 4 ARGUS Chet Dietrich has spent all but two of his 79 years in Conway Township and he wouldn't have it any other way.

Since he was born in 1926 in a farmhouse rural women usually didn't make the long trek to the hospital in those days Dietrich has seen his home township quintuple in size from about 500 residents to more than 2,700. "Guess I'm a homegrown product," quipped Dietrich, who has served as township clerk for 28 years. "Never really thought about leaving." Dietrich spent two-years fighting for Uncle Sam in World War II. He took his oath of office in the U.S. Air Force on March 10, 1944, two days shy of his 18th birthday.

"Actually, I didn't intend to enlist it was kind of comical," ed to go to a sit-down restaurant, buy prescription drugs or pick up a loaf of bread, they had to go outside the township. Wyett said ground will be broken at the site this month and if all goes according to plan, within the next decade, residents will have all those options and more. At Thursday's Oceola Township Board of Trustees meeting, the board approved a site plan for a CVS Pharmacy to be built on the southwest comer of Latson Road and M-59. Approval on the building was being held up because the sidewalks proposed were not what township officials had hoped for. Those sidewalks will eventually connect to a condominium housing development and a grocery store being proposed for parcels south of the pharmacy.

Continued on page 4 Dietrich recalled with an easy laugh. "A friend of mine said, 'Come on, a bunch of us are going down to Detroit to and I didn't want to, but I was the only one who ended up passing." After obtaining a deferment to graduate from Fowlerville High School of the 44 in the class of '44," he said), Dietrich was stationed in bases across America. For a lad whose travel experience was limited to one visit with relatives in Kitchener, Ontario, it was an eye-opening experience to move around to Texas, Florida and Colorado for more than a year. Nothing could have prepared Dietrich for what it was like to see Japan for the first time a place Photo by GILLIS BENEDICTowy press i arous Conway Township Clerk Chet Dietrich has served on the township board for 28 years. He has lived in the township his entire life except for two years serving in the military Continued on page 4 in World War II.

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