Hispanic Business magazine has named a Kansas University administrator one of 80 elite Hispanic businesswomen in the United States.
Janet Murguia, who has served as executive vice chancellor for university relations since last year, was one of 13 women in academia picked for the list. The list also included 50 women from business and 17 from government.
Murguia oversees all internal and external relations for KU, including governmental relations and public affairs. Before coming to KU, she worked in the Clinton administration and was an official in the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign.
Area birdwatchers can begin lining up sponsors for the Jayhawk Audubon Society’s 18th annual fund-raiser May 4-5, during which participants will spend 24 hours looking for birds in Douglas County and a few surrounding areas.
Afterward, sponsors will base their donations on the number of birds their person sees.
Money raised will be used to support several Jayhawk Audubon Society projects, including field trips, maintaining the information kiosk and the boardwalk at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, and coursework available in 50 elementary classrooms in the county.
For more information, call Richard Bean, 979-2649.
Hispanic Business magazine has named a Kansas University administrator one of 80 elite Hispanic businesswomen in the United States.
Janet Murguia, who has served as executive vice chancellor for university relations since last year, was one of 13 women in academia picked for the list. The list also included 50 women from business and 17 from government.
Murguia oversees all internal and external relations for KU, including governmental relations and public affairs. Before coming to KU, she worked in the Clinton administration and was an official in the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign.
Area birdwatchers can begin lining up sponsors for the Jayhawk Audubon Society’s 18th annual fund-raiser May 4-5, during which participants will spend 24 hours looking for birds in Douglas County and a few surrounding areas.
Afterward, sponsors will base their donations on the number of birds their person sees.
Money raised will be used to support several Jayhawk Audubon Society projects, including field trips, maintaining the information kiosk and the boardwalk at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, and coursework available in 50 elementary classrooms in the county.
For more information, call Richard Bean, 979-2649.
About 150 Army ROTC cadets from 21 universities will be in Lawrence on Saturday for Kansas University’s Best Ranger Buddy Team Competition.
Teams of two students compete in a series of events, including a 10-kilometer run, 500-meter swim, rock wall climb, and weapons assembly and disassembly. Events will occur at Clinton Lake, Robinson Gymnasium and KU’s West Campus.
Opening ceremonies begin at 6 a.m. on the trail near the Southwind 12 Theatres, 3433 Iowa. Closing ceremonies are at 4 p.m. near Youngberg Hall on West Campus.
The competition is based on the Best Ranger Competition, a seven-member event televised on ESPN.
The U.S. Department of Justice will reimburse the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for incarcerating federal prisoners.
The Sheriff’s Office will get $30,048 to cover some costs for the prisoners and provide federally mandated programs, Sheriff Rick Trapp said.
Each year the Sheriff’s Office uses a firm called Justice Benefits Inc. for assistance in researching and applying for little-known federal aid to ease the local tax burden, Trapp said.
Douglas County was one of 665 eligible entities across the country to successfully apply for the money.
A Lawrence resident and a Kansas family foundation have pledged $1.5 million toward the new building for Kansas University’s public radio station, KU Endowment Association officials announced Thursday.
Hortense “Tensie” Oldfather, Lawrence, donated more than $1 million in securities. The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park donated $500,000 toward the project.
Construction is under way on the 9,500-square-foot broadcast facility for KANU, 91.5 FM. Gifts still are being accepted for the $2.3 million project, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Oldfather has lived in Lawrence since 1950. Her husband, Charles Oldfather Jr., was a KU law professor and university counsel.
James P. Sunderland, a trustee and president of the Sunderland Foundation, also is a member of KANU’s advisory board. He is retired chairman of Ash Grove Cement Company in Overland Park.
New faculty representatives have been elected to two Kansas University governance groups.
New members of the Athletic Committee are Don Steeples, geology, and Renate Mai-Dalton, business. Both will serve three-year terms expiring May 2005.
New members of the Faculty Council, also serving three-year terms ending May 2005, will be Barbara Anthony-Twarog, physics and astronomy; Phillippe Barriere, architecture and urban design; Mark Ezell, social welfare; Jane Gibson, anthropology; Nancy Kinnersley, electrical engineering and computer science; Jill Kleinberg, business; George McCleary, geography; Tim Miller, religious studies; John Peck, law; Howard Rytting, pharmaceutical chemistry; Steve Shawl, physics; Joe Sicilian, economics; and Susan Twombly, teaching and leadership.
A body discovered more than a year ago near Lecompton has finally been identified, according to a Topeka man who says he is the victim’s father.
Dale Miller told the Journal-World on Thursday he was told about a week ago by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that the body is that of his son, Dale Alan Miller, 38. The body has since been returned to the family and was cremated, Dale Miller said.
Dale Miller said his son had been murdered. The KBI and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office have been investigating the death as a murder.
KBI spokesman Kyle Smith confirmed that an identification had been made but would not release the identity. He said information had been given to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.
That information is being studied, but no charges have been filed, Dist. Atty. Christine Kenney said.
The body was found April 14, 2001, under chunks of concrete off East 225 Road, a quarter-mile north of 2190 Road.
Markers showing how the proposed 32nd Street route for the South Lawrence Trafficway would pass through the Baker Wetlands will be the subject of an exhibit during the 11th annual Baker Wetlands Field Day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Ted Cable, who helped draft a mitigation agreement between the university and state transportation officials, will be on hand to answer questions on the proposed routes.
Other exhibits will celebrate the wetlands’ diversity, including living displays featuring birds, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Canoe trips will be available.
Located south of 31st Street between Haskell Avenue and Louisiana Street, the 573-acre wetlands are home to nearly 250 species of birds, 400 plant species and 85 invertebrates.
The public is asked to enter the north gate; exit the east gate.
Hispanic Business magazine has named a Kansas University administrator one of 80 elite Hispanic businesswomen in the United States.
Janet Murguia, who has served as executive vice chancellor for university relations since last year, was one of 13 women in academia picked for the list. The list also included 50 women from business and 17 from government.
Murguia oversees all internal and external relations for KU, including governmental relations and public affairs. Before coming to KU, she worked in the Clinton administration and was an official in the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign.
Area birdwatchers can begin lining up sponsors for the Jayhawk Audubon Society’s 18th annual fund-raiser May 4-5, during which participants will spend 24 hours looking for birds in Douglas County and a few surrounding areas.
Afterward, sponsors will base their donations on the number of birds their person sees.
Money raised will be used to support several Jayhawk Audubon Society projects, including field trips, maintaining the information kiosk and the boardwalk at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, and coursework available in 50 elementary classrooms in the county.
For more information, call Richard Bean, 979-2649.
About 150 Army ROTC cadets from 21 universities will be in Lawrence on Saturday for Kansas University’s Best Ranger Buddy Team Competition.
Teams of two students compete in a series of events, including a 10-kilometer run, 500-meter swim, rock wall climb, and weapons assembly and disassembly. Events will occur at Clinton Lake, Robinson Gymnasium and KU’s West Campus.
Opening ceremonies begin at 6 a.m. on the trail near the Southwind 12 Theatres, 3433 Iowa. Closing ceremonies are at 4 p.m. near Youngberg Hall on West Campus.
The competition is based on the Best Ranger Competition, a seven-member event televised on ESPN.
The U.S. Department of Justice will reimburse the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for incarcerating federal prisoners.
The Sheriff’s Office will get $30,048 to cover some costs for the prisoners and provide federally mandated programs, Sheriff Rick Trapp said.
Each year the Sheriff’s Office uses a firm called Justice Benefits Inc. for assistance in researching and applying for little-known federal aid to ease the local tax burden, Trapp said.
Douglas County was one of 665 eligible entities across the country to successfully apply for the money.
A Lawrence resident and a Kansas family foundation have pledged $1.5 million toward the new building for Kansas University’s public radio station, KU Endowment Association officials announced Thursday.
Hortense “Tensie” Oldfather, Lawrence, donated more than $1 million in securities. The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park donated $500,000 toward the project.
Construction is under way on the 9,500-square-foot broadcast facility for KANU, 91.5 FM. Gifts still are being accepted for the $2.3 million project, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Oldfather has lived in Lawrence since 1950. Her husband, Charles Oldfather Jr., was a KU law professor and university counsel.
James P. Sunderland, a trustee and president of the Sunderland Foundation, also is a member of KANU’s advisory board. He is retired chairman of Ash Grove Cement Company in Overland Park.
New faculty representatives have been elected to two Kansas University governance groups.
New members of the Athletic Committee are Don Steeples, geology, and Renate Mai-Dalton, business. Both will serve three-year terms expiring May 2005.
New members of the Faculty Council, also serving three-year terms ending May 2005, will be Barbara Anthony-Twarog, physics and astronomy; Phillippe Barriere, architecture and urban design; Mark Ezell, social welfare; Jane Gibson, anthropology; Nancy Kinnersley, electrical engineering and computer science; Jill Kleinberg, business; George McCleary, geography; Tim Miller, religious studies; John Peck, law; Howard Rytting, pharmaceutical chemistry; Steve Shawl, physics; Joe Sicilian, economics; and Susan Twombly, teaching and leadership.
A body discovered more than a year ago near Lecompton has finally been identified, according to a Topeka man who says he is the victim’s father.
Dale Miller told the Journal-World on Thursday he was told about a week ago by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that the body is that of his son, Dale Alan Miller, 38. The body has since been returned to the family and was cremated, Dale Miller said.
Dale Miller said his son had been murdered. The KBI and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office have been investigating the death as a murder.
KBI spokesman Kyle Smith confirmed that an identification had been made but would not release the identity. He said information had been given to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.
That information is being studied, but no charges have been filed, Dist. Atty. Christine Kenney said.
The body was found April 14, 2001, under chunks of concrete off East 225 Road, a quarter-mile north of 2190 Road.
Markers showing how the proposed 32nd Street route for the South Lawrence Trafficway would pass through the Baker Wetlands will be the subject of an exhibit during the 11th annual Baker Wetlands Field Day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Ted Cable, who helped draft a mitigation agreement between the university and state transportation officials, will be on hand to answer questions on the proposed routes.
Other exhibits will celebrate the wetlands’ diversity, including living displays featuring birds, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Canoe trips will be available.
Located south of 31st Street between Haskell Avenue and Louisiana Street, the 573-acre wetlands are home to nearly 250 species of birds, 400 plant species and 85 invertebrates.
The public is asked to enter the north gate; exit the east gate.
Hispanic Business magazine has named a Kansas University administrator one of 80 elite Hispanic businesswomen in the United States.
Janet Murguia, who has served as executive vice chancellor for university relations since last year, was one of 13 women in academia picked for the list. The list also included 50 women from business and 17 from government.
Murguia oversees all internal and external relations for KU, including governmental relations and public affairs. Before coming to KU, she worked in the Clinton administration and was an official in the Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign.
Area birdwatchers can begin lining up sponsors for the Jayhawk Audubon Society’s 18th annual fund-raiser May 4-5, during which participants will spend 24 hours looking for birds in Douglas County and a few surrounding areas.
Afterward, sponsors will base their donations on the number of birds their person sees.
Money raised will be used to support several Jayhawk Audubon Society projects, including field trips, maintaining the information kiosk and the boardwalk at the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, and coursework available in 50 elementary classrooms in the county.
For more information, call Richard Bean, 979-2649.
About 150 Army ROTC cadets from 21 universities will be in Lawrence on Saturday for Kansas University’s Best Ranger Buddy Team Competition.
Teams of two students compete in a series of events, including a 10-kilometer run, 500-meter swim, rock wall climb, and weapons assembly and disassembly. Events will occur at Clinton Lake, Robinson Gymnasium and KU’s West Campus.
Opening ceremonies begin at 6 a.m. on the trail near the Southwind 12 Theatres, 3433 Iowa. Closing ceremonies are at 4 p.m. near Youngberg Hall on West Campus.
The competition is based on the Best Ranger Competition, a seven-member event televised on ESPN.
The U.S. Department of Justice will reimburse the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for incarcerating federal prisoners.
The Sheriff’s Office will get $30,048 to cover some costs for the prisoners and provide federally mandated programs, Sheriff Rick Trapp said.
Each year the Sheriff’s Office uses a firm called Justice Benefits Inc. for assistance in researching and applying for little-known federal aid to ease the local tax burden, Trapp said.
Douglas County was one of 665 eligible entities across the country to successfully apply for the money.
A Lawrence resident and a Kansas family foundation have pledged $1.5 million toward the new building for Kansas University’s public radio station, KU Endowment Association officials announced Thursday.
Hortense “Tensie” Oldfather, Lawrence, donated more than $1 million in securities. The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park donated $500,000 toward the project.
Construction is under way on the 9,500-square-foot broadcast facility for KANU, 91.5 FM. Gifts still are being accepted for the $2.3 million project, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Oldfather has lived in Lawrence since 1950. Her husband, Charles Oldfather Jr., was a KU law professor and university counsel.
James P. Sunderland, a trustee and president of the Sunderland Foundation, also is a member of KANU’s advisory board. He is retired chairman of Ash Grove Cement Company in Overland Park.
New faculty representatives have been elected to two Kansas University governance groups.
New members of the Athletic Committee are Don Steeples, geology, and Renate Mai-Dalton, business. Both will serve three-year terms expiring May 2005.
New members of the Faculty Council, also serving three-year terms ending May 2005, will be Barbara Anthony-Twarog, physics and astronomy; Phillippe Barriere, architecture and urban design; Mark Ezell, social welfare; Jane Gibson, anthropology; Nancy Kinnersley, electrical engineering and computer science; Jill Kleinberg, business; George McCleary, geography; Tim Miller, religious studies; John Peck, law; Howard Rytting, pharmaceutical chemistry; Steve Shawl, physics; Joe Sicilian, economics; and Susan Twombly, teaching and leadership.
A body discovered more than a year ago near Lecompton has finally been identified, according to a Topeka man who says he is the victim’s father.
Dale Miller told the Journal-World on Thursday he was told about a week ago by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that the body is that of his son, Dale Alan Miller, 38. The body has since been returned to the family and was cremated, Dale Miller said.
Dale Miller said his son had been murdered. The KBI and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office have been investigating the death as a murder.
KBI spokesman Kyle Smith confirmed that an identification had been made but would not release the identity. He said information had been given to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.
That information is being studied, but no charges have been filed, Dist. Atty. Christine Kenney said.
The body was found April 14, 2001, under chunks of concrete off East 225 Road, a quarter-mile north of 2190 Road.
Markers showing how the proposed 32nd Street route for the South Lawrence Trafficway would pass through the Baker Wetlands will be the subject of an exhibit during the 11th annual Baker Wetlands Field Day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Ted Cable, who helped draft a mitigation agreement between the university and state transportation officials, will be on hand to answer questions on the proposed routes.
Other exhibits will celebrate the wetlands’ diversity, including living displays featuring birds, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Canoe trips will be available.
Located south of 31st Street between Haskell Avenue and Louisiana Street, the 573-acre wetlands are home to nearly 250 species of birds, 400 plant species and 85 invertebrates.
The public is asked to enter the north gate; exit the east gate.
About 150 Army ROTC cadets from 21 universities will be in Lawrence on Saturday for Kansas University’s Best Ranger Buddy Team Competition.
Teams of two students compete in a series of events, including a 10-kilometer run, 500-meter swim, rock wall climb, and weapons assembly and disassembly. Events will occur at Clinton Lake, Robinson Gymnasium and KU’s West Campus.
Opening ceremonies begin at 6 a.m. on the trail near the Southwind 12 Theatres, 3433 Iowa. Closing ceremonies are at 4 p.m. near Youngberg Hall on West Campus.
The competition is based on the Best Ranger Competition, a seven-member event televised on ESPN.
The U.S. Department of Justice will reimburse the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office for incarcerating federal prisoners.
The Sheriff’s Office will get $30,048 to cover some costs for the prisoners and provide federally mandated programs, Sheriff Rick Trapp said.
Each year the Sheriff’s Office uses a firm called Justice Benefits Inc. for assistance in researching and applying for little-known federal aid to ease the local tax burden, Trapp said.
Douglas County was one of 665 eligible entities across the country to successfully apply for the money.
A Lawrence resident and a Kansas family foundation have pledged $1.5 million toward the new building for Kansas University’s public radio station, KU Endowment Association officials announced Thursday.
Hortense “Tensie” Oldfather, Lawrence, donated more than $1 million in securities. The Sunderland Foundation of Overland Park donated $500,000 toward the project.
Construction is under way on the 9,500-square-foot broadcast facility for KANU, 91.5 FM. Gifts still are being accepted for the $2.3 million project, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
Oldfather has lived in Lawrence since 1950. Her husband, Charles Oldfather Jr., was a KU law professor and university counsel.
James P. Sunderland, a trustee and president of the Sunderland Foundation, also is a member of KANU’s advisory board. He is retired chairman of Ash Grove Cement Company in Overland Park.
New faculty representatives have been elected to two Kansas University governance groups.
New members of the Athletic Committee are Don Steeples, geology, and Renate Mai-Dalton, business. Both will serve three-year terms expiring May 2005.
New members of the Faculty Council, also serving three-year terms ending May 2005, will be Barbara Anthony-Twarog, physics and astronomy; Phillippe Barriere, architecture and urban design; Mark Ezell, social welfare; Jane Gibson, anthropology; Nancy Kinnersley, electrical engineering and computer science; Jill Kleinberg, business; George McCleary, geography; Tim Miller, religious studies; John Peck, law; Howard Rytting, pharmaceutical chemistry; Steve Shawl, physics; Joe Sicilian, economics; and Susan Twombly, teaching and leadership.
A body discovered more than a year ago near Lecompton has finally been identified, according to a Topeka man who says he is the victim’s father.
Dale Miller told the Journal-World on Thursday he was told about a week ago by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation that the body is that of his son, Dale Alan Miller, 38. The body has since been returned to the family and was cremated, Dale Miller said.
Dale Miller said his son had been murdered. The KBI and Douglas County Sheriff’s Office have been investigating the death as a murder.
KBI spokesman Kyle Smith confirmed that an identification had been made but would not release the identity. He said information had been given to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office.
That information is being studied, but no charges have been filed, Dist. Atty. Christine Kenney said.
The body was found April 14, 2001, under chunks of concrete off East 225 Road, a quarter-mile north of 2190 Road.
Markers showing how the proposed 32nd Street route for the South Lawrence Trafficway would pass through the Baker Wetlands will be the subject of an exhibit during the 11th annual Baker Wetlands Field Day from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Ted Cable, who helped draft a mitigation agreement between the university and state transportation officials, will be on hand to answer questions on the proposed routes.
Other exhibits will celebrate the wetlands’ diversity, including living displays featuring birds, turtles, frogs and salamanders. Canoe trips will be available.
Located south of 31st Street between Haskell Avenue and Louisiana Street, the 573-acre wetlands are home to nearly 250 species of birds, 400 plant species and 85 invertebrates.
The public is asked to enter the north gate; exit the east gate.
Lawrence bank robber sentenced to prison
Topeka A man who robbed a Lawrence bank last year was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison without parole.
Stephen A. Young, 48, Lawrence, also will have to serve three years of supervised release and pay restitution, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered.
Young pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to one count of bank robbery. On Sept. 29, 2001, Young robbed Douglas County Bank, 3101 Iowa, of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Kansas University students have elected a new student body president for the 2002-2003 school year.
Jonathan Ng, Leawood senior, will be the new president. His running mate, Loren Malone, Tulsa, Okla., junior, takes the vice president’s seat. Ng and Malone were candidates for the KUnited coalition and received 2,297 votes.
The next closest candidates Karen Keith and Kit Brauer of the Delta Force coalition received 1,493 votes.
Two referendums on the ballot passed. One asked whether students supported a $5 per semester fee for the newspaper readership program. It passed 3,543 to 383.
The second referendum asked whether students living in greek housing should be able to vote in the off-campus senator classification. It passed 2,372 to 1,475.
A Thursday night thunderstorm that blew through Douglas County left rain but no reported damage.
Lawrence received a little more than half an inch of rain in a 45-minute period, said Wes Etheredge, a meteorologist with WeatherData, a private forecasting service in Wichita. Thunder and lightning were accompanied by peak wind gusts of 40 mph, he said.
But neither Douglas County nor surrounding counties reported any damage from the storm.
Counties in the southern part of the state weren’t as lucky. Heavy flooding occurred in Butler County, Etheredge said. The Wichita area saw quite a bit of hail, and two tornadoes touched down one in Newton, the other near Pretty Prairie, he said. Both twisters were short-lived and didn’t cause any significant damage.
As it faces potential funding cuts, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County is appealing for pledges to make its 11th annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake fund-raiser a success.
The economic downturn has resulted in the loss of a few major foundation gifts, executive director Jane Pennington said.
Bowl For Kids’ Sake which will be from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 20 at Royal Crest Lanes, Ninth and Iowa streets is the group’s largest fund-raiser.
Proceeds support the organization’s mentoring work.
If you would like to register to bowl or make a donation, you can do so online at www.bfks.kintera.org/
douglascountyks.
Lawrence bank robber sentenced to prison
Topeka A man who robbed a Lawrence bank last year was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison without parole.
Stephen A. Young, 48, Lawrence, also will have to serve three years of supervised release and pay restitution, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered.
Young pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to one count of bank robbery. On Sept. 29, 2001, Young robbed Douglas County Bank, 3101 Iowa, of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Kansas University students have elected a new student body president for the 2002-2003 school year.
Jonathan Ng, Leawood senior, will be the new president. His running mate, Loren Malone, Tulsa, Okla., junior, takes the vice president’s seat. Ng and Malone were candidates for the KUnited coalition and received 2,297 votes.
The next closest candidates Karen Keith and Kit Brauer of the Delta Force coalition received 1,493 votes.
Two referendums on the ballot passed. One asked whether students supported a $5 per semester fee for the newspaper readership program. It passed 3,543 to 383.
The second referendum asked whether students living in greek housing should be able to vote in the off-campus senator classification. It passed 2,372 to 1,475.
A Thursday night thunderstorm that blew through Douglas County left rain but no reported damage.
Lawrence received a little more than half an inch of rain in a 45-minute period, said Wes Etheredge, a meteorologist with WeatherData, a private forecasting service in Wichita. Thunder and lightning were accompanied by peak wind gusts of 40 mph, he said.
But neither Douglas County nor surrounding counties reported any damage from the storm.
Counties in the southern part of the state weren’t as lucky. Heavy flooding occurred in Butler County, Etheredge said. The Wichita area saw quite a bit of hail, and two tornadoes touched down one in Newton, the other near Pretty Prairie, he said. Both twisters were short-lived and didn’t cause any significant damage.
As it faces potential funding cuts, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County is appealing for pledges to make its 11th annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake fund-raiser a success.
The economic downturn has resulted in the loss of a few major foundation gifts, executive director Jane Pennington said.
Bowl For Kids’ Sake which will be from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 20 at Royal Crest Lanes, Ninth and Iowa streets is the group’s largest fund-raiser.
Proceeds support the organization’s mentoring work.
If you would like to register to bowl or make a donation, you can do so online at www.bfks.kintera.org/
douglascountyks.
Lawrence bank robber sentenced to prison
Topeka A man who robbed a Lawrence bank last year was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison without parole.
Stephen A. Young, 48, Lawrence, also will have to serve three years of supervised release and pay restitution, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered.
Young pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to one count of bank robbery. On Sept. 29, 2001, Young robbed Douglas County Bank, 3101 Iowa, of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Kansas University students have elected a new student body president for the 2002-2003 school year.
Jonathan Ng, Leawood senior, will be the new president. His running mate, Loren Malone, Tulsa, Okla., junior, takes the vice president’s seat. Ng and Malone were candidates for the KUnited coalition and received 2,297 votes.
The next closest candidates Karen Keith and Kit Brauer of the Delta Force coalition received 1,493 votes.
Two referendums on the ballot passed. One asked whether students supported a $5 per semester fee for the newspaper readership program. It passed 3,543 to 383.
The second referendum asked whether students living in greek housing should be able to vote in the off-campus senator classification. It passed 2,372 to 1,475.
A Thursday night thunderstorm that blew through Douglas County left rain but no reported damage.
Lawrence received a little more than half an inch of rain in a 45-minute period, said Wes Etheredge, a meteorologist with WeatherData, a private forecasting service in Wichita. Thunder and lightning were accompanied by peak wind gusts of 40 mph, he said.
But neither Douglas County nor surrounding counties reported any damage from the storm.
Counties in the southern part of the state weren’t as lucky. Heavy flooding occurred in Butler County, Etheredge said. The Wichita area saw quite a bit of hail, and two tornadoes touched down one in Newton, the other near Pretty Prairie, he said. Both twisters were short-lived and didn’t cause any significant damage.
As it faces potential funding cuts, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County is appealing for pledges to make its 11th annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake fund-raiser a success.
The economic downturn has resulted in the loss of a few major foundation gifts, executive director Jane Pennington said.
Bowl For Kids’ Sake which will be from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 20 at Royal Crest Lanes, Ninth and Iowa streets is the group’s largest fund-raiser.
Proceeds support the organization’s mentoring work.
If you would like to register to bowl or make a donation, you can do so online at www.bfks.kintera.org/
douglascountyks.
Lawrence bank robber sentenced to prison
Topeka A man who robbed a Lawrence bank last year was sentenced Thursday to 52 months in federal prison without parole.
Stephen A. Young, 48, Lawrence, also will have to serve three years of supervised release and pay restitution, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Rogers ordered.
Young pleaded guilty Feb. 8 to one count of bank robbery. On Sept. 29, 2001, Young robbed Douglas County Bank, 3101 Iowa, of an undisclosed amount of cash.
Kansas University students have elected a new student body president for the 2002-2003 school year.
Jonathan Ng, Leawood senior, will be the new president. His running mate, Loren Malone, Tulsa, Okla., junior, takes the vice president’s seat. Ng and Malone were candidates for the KUnited coalition and received 2,297 votes.
The next closest candidates Karen Keith and Kit Brauer of the Delta Force coalition received 1,493 votes.
Two referendums on the ballot passed. One asked whether students supported a $5 per semester fee for the newspaper readership program. It passed 3,543 to 383.
The second referendum asked whether students living in greek housing should be able to vote in the off-campus senator classification. It passed 2,372 to 1,475.
A Thursday night thunderstorm that blew through Douglas County left rain but no reported damage.
Lawrence received a little more than half an inch of rain in a 45-minute period, said Wes Etheredge, a meteorologist with WeatherData, a private forecasting service in Wichita. Thunder and lightning were accompanied by peak wind gusts of 40 mph, he said.
But neither Douglas County nor surrounding counties reported any damage from the storm.
Counties in the southern part of the state weren’t as lucky. Heavy flooding occurred in Butler County, Etheredge said. The Wichita area saw quite a bit of hail, and two tornadoes touched down one in Newton, the other near Pretty Prairie, he said. Both twisters were short-lived and didn’t cause any significant damage.
As it faces potential funding cuts, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County is appealing for pledges to make its 11th annual Bowl For Kids’ Sake fund-raiser a success.
The economic downturn has resulted in the loss of a few major foundation gifts, executive director Jane Pennington said.
Bowl For Kids’ Sake which will be from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. April 20 at Royal Crest Lanes, Ninth and Iowa streets is the group’s largest fund-raiser.
Proceeds support the organization’s mentoring work.
If you would like to register to bowl or make a donation, you can do so online at www.bfks.kintera.org/
douglascountyks.
Jury deadlocks again in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe For the second time in three months, a Johnson County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with murder in the slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jury members deliberated for two hours Wednesday afternoon and 5 1/2 hours Thursday, only to deadlock on whether Jesse Guardado, 18, was guilty of first-degree murder. The charge stemmed from accusations that Guardado played a role in the death of Melanie Oliver, a 41-year-old DeSoto woman who was shot to death Sept. 4, 2001, as she slept in her home.
A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing. He is scheduled for a third trial on May 20.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on the charge is scheduled Tuesday.
Health-care professionals will inform Baldwin residents and Baker University students during a Community Wellness Festival on Saturday, April 6.
About 40 exhibitors are expected for the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Collins Center on Baker’s campus.
Free health screenings will be available for vision, blood pressure, bone density, body fat, hearing, heart rate, flexibility and lung volume.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital lab will offer a total lipid profile with specific prostate tests for a lab fee. The festival is funded by a Douglas County Community Foundation grant and will include exhibitors specializing in areas such as cancer, dental care, sleep apnea, childhood lead prevention and physical therapy.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Amanda Jay, human development and family life, “The effects of a leadership-development program on the performance of upper-level sales managers in a Fortune 1000 company,” 10 a.m. April 10, 4070 Dole.
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Cottonwood Inc. wants to familiarize the community with the services it offers to people with developmental disabilities.
To do so, the organization is offering Lunch Bunch tours the last Thursday of each month in 2002 at its building, 2801 W. 31st St.
The next tour will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. To make a reservation, call Tracie at 840-1604.
Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided.
Jury deadlocks again in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe For the second time in three months, a Johnson County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with murder in the slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jury members deliberated for two hours Wednesday afternoon and 5 1/2 hours Thursday, only to deadlock on whether Jesse Guardado, 18, was guilty of first-degree murder. The charge stemmed from accusations that Guardado played a role in the death of Melanie Oliver, a 41-year-old DeSoto woman who was shot to death Sept. 4, 2001, as she slept in her home.
A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing. He is scheduled for a third trial on May 20.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on the charge is scheduled Tuesday.
Health-care professionals will inform Baldwin residents and Baker University students during a Community Wellness Festival on Saturday, April 6.
About 40 exhibitors are expected for the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Collins Center on Baker’s campus.
Free health screenings will be available for vision, blood pressure, bone density, body fat, hearing, heart rate, flexibility and lung volume.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital lab will offer a total lipid profile with specific prostate tests for a lab fee. The festival is funded by a Douglas County Community Foundation grant and will include exhibitors specializing in areas such as cancer, dental care, sleep apnea, childhood lead prevention and physical therapy.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Amanda Jay, human development and family life, “The effects of a leadership-development program on the performance of upper-level sales managers in a Fortune 1000 company,” 10 a.m. April 10, 4070 Dole.
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Cottonwood Inc. wants to familiarize the community with the services it offers to people with developmental disabilities.
To do so, the organization is offering Lunch Bunch tours the last Thursday of each month in 2002 at its building, 2801 W. 31st St.
The next tour will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. To make a reservation, call Tracie at 840-1604.
Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided.
Jury deadlocks again in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe For the second time in three months, a Johnson County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with murder in the slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jury members deliberated for two hours Wednesday afternoon and 5 1/2 hours Thursday, only to deadlock on whether Jesse Guardado, 18, was guilty of first-degree murder. The charge stemmed from accusations that Guardado played a role in the death of Melanie Oliver, a 41-year-old DeSoto woman who was shot to death Sept. 4, 2001, as she slept in her home.
A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing. He is scheduled for a third trial on May 20.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on the charge is scheduled Tuesday.
Health-care professionals will inform Baldwin residents and Baker University students during a Community Wellness Festival on Saturday, April 6.
About 40 exhibitors are expected for the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Collins Center on Baker’s campus.
Free health screenings will be available for vision, blood pressure, bone density, body fat, hearing, heart rate, flexibility and lung volume.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital lab will offer a total lipid profile with specific prostate tests for a lab fee. The festival is funded by a Douglas County Community Foundation grant and will include exhibitors specializing in areas such as cancer, dental care, sleep apnea, childhood lead prevention and physical therapy.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Amanda Jay, human development and family life, “The effects of a leadership-development program on the performance of upper-level sales managers in a Fortune 1000 company,” 10 a.m. April 10, 4070 Dole.
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Cottonwood Inc. wants to familiarize the community with the services it offers to people with developmental disabilities.
To do so, the organization is offering Lunch Bunch tours the last Thursday of each month in 2002 at its building, 2801 W. 31st St.
The next tour will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. To make a reservation, call Tracie at 840-1604.
Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided.
Jury deadlocks again in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe For the second time in three months, a Johnson County jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with murder in the slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jury members deliberated for two hours Wednesday afternoon and 5 1/2 hours Thursday, only to deadlock on whether Jesse Guardado, 18, was guilty of first-degree murder. The charge stemmed from accusations that Guardado played a role in the death of Melanie Oliver, a 41-year-old DeSoto woman who was shot to death Sept. 4, 2001, as she slept in her home.
A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing. He is scheduled for a third trial on May 20.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on the charge is scheduled Tuesday.
Health-care professionals will inform Baldwin residents and Baker University students during a Community Wellness Festival on Saturday, April 6.
About 40 exhibitors are expected for the event, which runs from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Collins Center on Baker’s campus.
Free health screenings will be available for vision, blood pressure, bone density, body fat, hearing, heart rate, flexibility and lung volume.
The Lawrence Memorial Hospital lab will offer a total lipid profile with specific prostate tests for a lab fee. The festival is funded by a Douglas County Community Foundation grant and will include exhibitors specializing in areas such as cancer, dental care, sleep apnea, childhood lead prevention and physical therapy.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Amanda Jay, human development and family life, “The effects of a leadership-development program on the performance of upper-level sales managers in a Fortune 1000 company,” 10 a.m. April 10, 4070 Dole.
As part of its 30th anniversary celebration, Cottonwood Inc. wants to familiarize the community with the services it offers to people with developmental disabilities.
To do so, the organization is offering Lunch Bunch tours the last Thursday of each month in 2002 at its building, 2801 W. 31st St.
The next tour will be from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. To make a reservation, call Tracie at 840-1604.
Participants should bring a brown bag lunch. Drinks will be provided.
Jury begins deliberations in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe A Johnson County jury Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 4, 2001, slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jesse Guardado, 18, is on trial for the second time in three months for the shooting death of Melanie Oliver, 41, who was killed as she slept in her DeSoto home. A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing.
Jurors were to reconvene for deliberations at 9 a.m. today.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on that charge is scheduled for Tuesday.
Internet users can now take a virtual tour of Jayhawk Boulevard on Kansas University’s Web site.
The site, at www.virtualtour.ku.edu, allows viewers to see panoramic views of campus buildings as well as their interiors.
The site also includes historical information about Kansas University.
The Kansas Geological Survey is organizing a field trip April 20 so participants can learn about rocks and fossils of south-central Kansas east of El Dorado.
The trip, which is a repeat of a trip in October, includes stops at Eureka City Lake, Toronto Lake and a quarry near Buffalo.
Topics include basic bedrock geology, molten rock and fossil-collecting.
The trip departs at 8:30 a.m. April 20 from East Park in El Dorado. The cost is $15 per person.
To register, contact Liz Brosius at 864-2063 or lbrosius@kgs.ku.edu, or Rex Buchanan at 864-2106 or rex@kgs.ku.edu.
For more information, go to www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/fieldtrips.html .
The director of a film about the Holocaust will show her movie and speak next month at Kansas University.
Martha Lubell, director of “Daring to Resist,” will speak at 7 p.m. April 24 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Her film depicts three teen-age girls who fought back against the Nazis.
The event is sponsored by the KU Hillel Foundation. For more information, call 749-5397.
Jury begins deliberations in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe A Johnson County jury Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 4, 2001, slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jesse Guardado, 18, is on trial for the second time in three months for the shooting death of Melanie Oliver, 41, who was killed as she slept in her DeSoto home. A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing.
Jurors were to reconvene for deliberations at 9 a.m. today.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on that charge is scheduled for Tuesday.
Internet users can now take a virtual tour of Jayhawk Boulevard on Kansas University’s Web site.
The site, at www.virtualtour.ku.edu, allows viewers to see panoramic views of campus buildings as well as their interiors.
The site also includes historical information about Kansas University.
The Kansas Geological Survey is organizing a field trip April 20 so participants can learn about rocks and fossils of south-central Kansas east of El Dorado.
The trip, which is a repeat of a trip in October, includes stops at Eureka City Lake, Toronto Lake and a quarry near Buffalo.
Topics include basic bedrock geology, molten rock and fossil-collecting.
The trip departs at 8:30 a.m. April 20 from East Park in El Dorado. The cost is $15 per person.
To register, contact Liz Brosius at 864-2063 or lbrosius@kgs.ku.edu, or Rex Buchanan at 864-2106 or rex@kgs.ku.edu.
For more information, go to www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/fieldtrips.html .
The director of a film about the Holocaust will show her movie and speak next month at Kansas University.
Martha Lubell, director of “Daring to Resist,” will speak at 7 p.m. April 24 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Her film depicts three teen-age girls who fought back against the Nazis.
The event is sponsored by the KU Hillel Foundation. For more information, call 749-5397.
Jury begins deliberations in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe A Johnson County jury Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 4, 2001, slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jesse Guardado, 18, is on trial for the second time in three months for the shooting death of Melanie Oliver, 41, who was killed as she slept in her DeSoto home. A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing.
Jurors were to reconvene for deliberations at 9 a.m. today.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on that charge is scheduled for Tuesday.
Internet users can now take a virtual tour of Jayhawk Boulevard on Kansas University’s Web site.
The site, at www.virtualtour.ku.edu, allows viewers to see panoramic views of campus buildings as well as their interiors.
The site also includes historical information about Kansas University.
The Kansas Geological Survey is organizing a field trip April 20 so participants can learn about rocks and fossils of south-central Kansas east of El Dorado.
The trip, which is a repeat of a trip in October, includes stops at Eureka City Lake, Toronto Lake and a quarry near Buffalo.
Topics include basic bedrock geology, molten rock and fossil-collecting.
The trip departs at 8:30 a.m. April 20 from East Park in El Dorado. The cost is $15 per person.
To register, contact Liz Brosius at 864-2063 or lbrosius@kgs.ku.edu, or Rex Buchanan at 864-2106 or rex@kgs.ku.edu.
For more information, go to www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/fieldtrips.html .
The director of a film about the Holocaust will show her movie and speak next month at Kansas University.
Martha Lubell, director of “Daring to Resist,” will speak at 7 p.m. April 24 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Her film depicts three teen-age girls who fought back against the Nazis.
The event is sponsored by the KU Hillel Foundation. For more information, call 749-5397.
Jury begins deliberations in DeSoto murder trial
Olathe A Johnson County jury Wednesday began deliberations in the trial of an Edwardsville man charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 4, 2001, slaying of a DeSoto woman.
Jesse Guardado, 18, is on trial for the second time in three months for the shooting death of Melanie Oliver, 41, who was killed as she slept in her DeSoto home. A jury in January was unable to reach a verdict at the conclusion of Guardado’s first hearing.
Jurors were to reconvene for deliberations at 9 a.m. today.
Also charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death is Alfredo Arambula, 18, Kansas City, Kan. He is expected to enter a plea in May after he testifies against Guardado and his brother, Juan Crutchfield, 22, DeSoto, who also is charged with first-degree murder in Oliver’s death.
Crutchfield’s preliminary hearing on that charge is scheduled for Tuesday.
Internet users can now take a virtual tour of Jayhawk Boulevard on Kansas University’s Web site.
The site, at www.virtualtour.ku.edu, allows viewers to see panoramic views of campus buildings as well as their interiors.
The site also includes historical information about Kansas University.
The Kansas Geological Survey is organizing a field trip April 20 so participants can learn about rocks and fossils of south-central Kansas east of El Dorado.
The trip, which is a repeat of a trip in October, includes stops at Eureka City Lake, Toronto Lake and a quarry near Buffalo.
Topics include basic bedrock geology, molten rock and fossil-collecting.
The trip departs at 8:30 a.m. April 20 from East Park in El Dorado. The cost is $15 per person.
To register, contact Liz Brosius at 864-2063 or lbrosius@kgs.ku.edu, or Rex Buchanan at 864-2106 or rex@kgs.ku.edu.
For more information, go to www.kgs.ukans.edu/Extension/fieldtrips.html .
The director of a film about the Holocaust will show her movie and speak next month at Kansas University.
Martha Lubell, director of “Daring to Resist,” will speak at 7 p.m. April 24 in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
Her film depicts three teen-age girls who fought back against the Nazis.
The event is sponsored by the KU Hillel Foundation. For more information, call 749-5397.
A man found unconscious Wednesday night on a Lawrence sidewalk was in fair condition Thursday afternoon at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Lawrence Police investigating the circumstances of the incident were waiting Thursday until the 29-year-old victim was able to be interviewed. Police said the victim is a transient.
A man and a woman driving by the 900 block of Tennessee Street discovered the man about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and called police. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical ambulance took him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was then transferred to the Med Center.
A medical examination revealed injuries that were not consistent with a fall, police said. No other information was released.
More than $24,200 and 300 Kansas Lottery tickets were allegedly taken during a period of several months from a Lawrence convenience store.
Lawrence Police are investigating an embezzlement at Kwik Shop Inc., 1420 Kasold Drive. Police were notified Wednesday after a store audit revealed discrepancies, Sgt. Mike Pattrick said.
A man who once worked at the store has been interviewed, but no arrests have been made, Pattrick said.
An investigation is continuing. Police did not say what type of lottery tickets were taken.
A spokesman for Kwik Trip’s corporate office in Hutchinson declined to comment on the case.
A van full of Lawrence commuters narrowly avoided injury Thursday morning in an accident on Kansas Highway 10.
Six Lawrence area residents who work at Quintiles in Kansas City, Mo., and ride to work together in a vanpool each morning were eastbound on K-10 about 7:40 a.m. Thursday, when a sport utility vehicle in the passing lane brushed up against the side of their van, said Thomas Tandy, van driver.
The van was unaffected, but the SUV overcorrected, rolled through the center median and ended up blocking a lane of westbound traffic.
Tandy said he pulled over and ran to assist the man and woman in the SUV, who both got out of their vehicle without apparent injuries.
Tandy and another motorist who stopped to assist used a fire extinguisher to put out a small blaze in the SUV’s engine compartment.
Cyberterrorism will be the topic for a moot court competition this weekend at Kansas University.
The School of Law is hosting the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Midwest Regional Competition. Students from about 10 law schools will compete.
Preliminary rounds begin at 6:30 p.m. today and will continue at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Semifinals are at 5 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and finals will be at 10 a.m. Sunday in Green Hall.
Topics will include freedom of expression on the Internet, computer hacking and the legality of luring an alleged cyberterrorist from one state into another to prosecute him.
The event is open to the public.
Fire destroys house in Franklin County
Ottawa Two township fire departments Thursday morning battled a fire that destroyed a house eight miles east of Ottawa.
No one was injured in the blaze. The occupants of the house, Alan and Vicky Leroy, were not home, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said.
No cause for the fire has been determined, and the Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
A passing motorist saw and reported the fire shortly before 7 a.m. at 4327 Kansas Highway 68, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lunger. Cutler and Franklin townships sent firefighters to the scene. They fought the blaze for more than three hours, Lunger said.
Damage to the one-story wood-frame house, its contents and a car and motorcycle parked in a basement garage totaled $215,000.
A man found unconscious Wednesday night on a Lawrence sidewalk was in fair condition Thursday afternoon at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Lawrence Police investigating the circumstances of the incident were waiting Thursday until the 29-year-old victim was able to be interviewed. Police said the victim is a transient.
A man and a woman driving by the 900 block of Tennessee Street discovered the man about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and called police. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical ambulance took him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was then transferred to the Med Center.
A medical examination revealed injuries that were not consistent with a fall, police said. No other information was released.
More than $24,200 and 300 Kansas Lottery tickets were allegedly taken during a period of several months from a Lawrence convenience store.
Lawrence Police are investigating an embezzlement at Kwik Shop Inc., 1420 Kasold Drive. Police were notified Wednesday after a store audit revealed discrepancies, Sgt. Mike Pattrick said.
A man who once worked at the store has been interviewed, but no arrests have been made, Pattrick said.
An investigation is continuing. Police did not say what type of lottery tickets were taken.
A spokesman for Kwik Trip’s corporate office in Hutchinson declined to comment on the case.
A van full of Lawrence commuters narrowly avoided injury Thursday morning in an accident on Kansas Highway 10.
Six Lawrence area residents who work at Quintiles in Kansas City, Mo., and ride to work together in a vanpool each morning were eastbound on K-10 about 7:40 a.m. Thursday, when a sport utility vehicle in the passing lane brushed up against the side of their van, said Thomas Tandy, van driver.
The van was unaffected, but the SUV overcorrected, rolled through the center median and ended up blocking a lane of westbound traffic.
Tandy said he pulled over and ran to assist the man and woman in the SUV, who both got out of their vehicle without apparent injuries.
Tandy and another motorist who stopped to assist used a fire extinguisher to put out a small blaze in the SUV’s engine compartment.
Cyberterrorism will be the topic for a moot court competition this weekend at Kansas University.
The School of Law is hosting the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Midwest Regional Competition. Students from about 10 law schools will compete.
Preliminary rounds begin at 6:30 p.m. today and will continue at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Semifinals are at 5 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and finals will be at 10 a.m. Sunday in Green Hall.
Topics will include freedom of expression on the Internet, computer hacking and the legality of luring an alleged cyberterrorist from one state into another to prosecute him.
The event is open to the public.
Fire destroys house in Franklin County
Ottawa Two township fire departments Thursday morning battled a fire that destroyed a house eight miles east of Ottawa.
No one was injured in the blaze. The occupants of the house, Alan and Vicky Leroy, were not home, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said.
No cause for the fire has been determined, and the Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
A passing motorist saw and reported the fire shortly before 7 a.m. at 4327 Kansas Highway 68, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lunger. Cutler and Franklin townships sent firefighters to the scene. They fought the blaze for more than three hours, Lunger said.
Damage to the one-story wood-frame house, its contents and a car and motorcycle parked in a basement garage totaled $215,000.
A man found unconscious Wednesday night on a Lawrence sidewalk was in fair condition Thursday afternoon at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Lawrence Police investigating the circumstances of the incident were waiting Thursday until the 29-year-old victim was able to be interviewed. Police said the victim is a transient.
A man and a woman driving by the 900 block of Tennessee Street discovered the man about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and called police. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical ambulance took him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was then transferred to the Med Center.
A medical examination revealed injuries that were not consistent with a fall, police said. No other information was released.
More than $24,200 and 300 Kansas Lottery tickets were allegedly taken during a period of several months from a Lawrence convenience store.
Lawrence Police are investigating an embezzlement at Kwik Shop Inc., 1420 Kasold Drive. Police were notified Wednesday after a store audit revealed discrepancies, Sgt. Mike Pattrick said.
A man who once worked at the store has been interviewed, but no arrests have been made, Pattrick said.
An investigation is continuing. Police did not say what type of lottery tickets were taken.
A spokesman for Kwik Trip’s corporate office in Hutchinson declined to comment on the case.
A van full of Lawrence commuters narrowly avoided injury Thursday morning in an accident on Kansas Highway 10.
Six Lawrence area residents who work at Quintiles in Kansas City, Mo., and ride to work together in a vanpool each morning were eastbound on K-10 about 7:40 a.m. Thursday, when a sport utility vehicle in the passing lane brushed up against the side of their van, said Thomas Tandy, van driver.
The van was unaffected, but the SUV overcorrected, rolled through the center median and ended up blocking a lane of westbound traffic.
Tandy said he pulled over and ran to assist the man and woman in the SUV, who both got out of their vehicle without apparent injuries.
Tandy and another motorist who stopped to assist used a fire extinguisher to put out a small blaze in the SUV’s engine compartment.
Cyberterrorism will be the topic for a moot court competition this weekend at Kansas University.
The School of Law is hosting the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Midwest Regional Competition. Students from about 10 law schools will compete.
Preliminary rounds begin at 6:30 p.m. today and will continue at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Semifinals are at 5 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and finals will be at 10 a.m. Sunday in Green Hall.
Topics will include freedom of expression on the Internet, computer hacking and the legality of luring an alleged cyberterrorist from one state into another to prosecute him.
The event is open to the public.
Fire destroys house in Franklin County
Ottawa Two township fire departments Thursday morning battled a fire that destroyed a house eight miles east of Ottawa.
No one was injured in the blaze. The occupants of the house, Alan and Vicky Leroy, were not home, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said.
No cause for the fire has been determined, and the Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
A passing motorist saw and reported the fire shortly before 7 a.m. at 4327 Kansas Highway 68, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lunger. Cutler and Franklin townships sent firefighters to the scene. They fought the blaze for more than three hours, Lunger said.
Damage to the one-story wood-frame house, its contents and a car and motorcycle parked in a basement garage totaled $215,000.
A man found unconscious Wednesday night on a Lawrence sidewalk was in fair condition Thursday afternoon at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.
Lawrence Police investigating the circumstances of the incident were waiting Thursday until the 29-year-old victim was able to be interviewed. Police said the victim is a transient.
A man and a woman driving by the 900 block of Tennessee Street discovered the man about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and called police. Lawrence-Douglas County Fire & Medical ambulance took him to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. He was then transferred to the Med Center.
A medical examination revealed injuries that were not consistent with a fall, police said. No other information was released.
More than $24,200 and 300 Kansas Lottery tickets were allegedly taken during a period of several months from a Lawrence convenience store.
Lawrence Police are investigating an embezzlement at Kwik Shop Inc., 1420 Kasold Drive. Police were notified Wednesday after a store audit revealed discrepancies, Sgt. Mike Pattrick said.
A man who once worked at the store has been interviewed, but no arrests have been made, Pattrick said.
An investigation is continuing. Police did not say what type of lottery tickets were taken.
A spokesman for Kwik Trip’s corporate office in Hutchinson declined to comment on the case.
A van full of Lawrence commuters narrowly avoided injury Thursday morning in an accident on Kansas Highway 10.
Six Lawrence area residents who work at Quintiles in Kansas City, Mo., and ride to work together in a vanpool each morning were eastbound on K-10 about 7:40 a.m. Thursday, when a sport utility vehicle in the passing lane brushed up against the side of their van, said Thomas Tandy, van driver.
The van was unaffected, but the SUV overcorrected, rolled through the center median and ended up blocking a lane of westbound traffic.
Tandy said he pulled over and ran to assist the man and woman in the SUV, who both got out of their vehicle without apparent injuries.
Tandy and another motorist who stopped to assist used a fire extinguisher to put out a small blaze in the SUV’s engine compartment.
Cyberterrorism will be the topic for a moot court competition this weekend at Kansas University.
The School of Law is hosting the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Midwest Regional Competition. Students from about 10 law schools will compete.
Preliminary rounds begin at 6:30 p.m. today and will continue at 8:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall. Semifinals are at 5 p.m. Saturday in Joseph R. Pearson Hall, and finals will be at 10 a.m. Sunday in Green Hall.
Topics will include freedom of expression on the Internet, computer hacking and the legality of luring an alleged cyberterrorist from one state into another to prosecute him.
The event is open to the public.
Fire destroys house in Franklin County
Ottawa Two township fire departments Thursday morning battled a fire that destroyed a house eight miles east of Ottawa.
No one was injured in the blaze. The occupants of the house, Alan and Vicky Leroy, were not home, the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said.
No cause for the fire has been determined, and the Kansas Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating.
A passing motorist saw and reported the fire shortly before 7 a.m. at 4327 Kansas Highway 68, said Sheriff’s Sgt. Steve Lunger. Cutler and Franklin townships sent firefighters to the scene. They fought the blaze for more than three hours, Lunger said.
Damage to the one-story wood-frame house, its contents and a car and motorcycle parked in a basement garage totaled $215,000.
City crews will begin work today to remove sediment near a box culvert at 31st and Louisiana streets. Work is expected to last from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Thursday.
The removal will clear the box culvert and allow better flow of stormwater in the Naismith channel. The sediment removal has been a joint project between the city and Douglas County. City crews will remove sediment north of 31st Street; county crews recently completed sediment removal south of 31st Street.
The project is being financed by the city’s stormwater utility, a fee established to finance drainage projects and maintenance in town.
A random survey of Wellsville residents suggests the city’s police department should be eliminated.
Wellsville City Clerk Donna Reed said a group recently presented the survey to the city council for review. She said the survey’s comments recommend that the city hire the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office to provide law enforcement protection; it also suggests reviewing the department, including finding ways to reduce costs.
The survey comes about a month after the City Council paid nearly $15,000 in delinquent overtime to police officers and fired the police chief, Randy Hinderliter. Sgt. Mike Reed is serving as interim chief.
Donna Reed said city council members probably would discuss the survey at their next meeting, Thursday.
Subcommittees of the National Heritage Area Task Force are starting to meet this week.
The history/sociology subcommittee will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the Douglas County Commission Chambers at the county courthouse, 1100 Mass., to begin discussion of the historical and sociological issues related to the designation of Lawrence as a National Heritage Area.
The architecture and geography subcommittee will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at GLPM Architects, 1001 N.H., to begin work on issues related to architecture and geography involved in the designation. The meetings are open to the public.
Kansas University faculty and staff on Thursday endorsed a Student Senate plan to create a committee to lead discussions on tuition increases.
In approving the measure Thursday, University Council members said they hoped the board would work with administrators to form a tuition proposal that would please all the groups.
The committee, to be comprised of faculty, staff and students, was approved Wednesday by Student Senate.
KU will present its five-year tuition proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents in April.
City crews will begin work today to remove sediment near a box culvert at 31st and Louisiana streets. Work is expected to last from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Thursday.
The removal will clear the box culvert and allow better flow of stormwater in the Naismith channel. The sediment removal has been a joint project between the city and Douglas County. City crews will remove sediment north of 31st Street; county crews recently completed sediment removal south of 31st Street.
The project is being financed by the city’s stormwater utility, a fee established to finance drainage projects and maintenance in town.
A random survey of Wellsville residents suggests the city’s police department should be eliminated.
Wellsville City Clerk Donna Reed said a group recently presented the survey to the city council for review. She said the survey’s comments recommend that the city hire the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office to provide law enforcement protection; it also suggests reviewing the department, including finding ways to reduce costs.
The survey comes about a month after the City Council paid nearly $15,000 in delinquent overtime to police officers and fired the police chief, Randy Hinderliter. Sgt. Mike Reed is serving as interim chief.
Donna Reed said city council members probably would discuss the survey at their next meeting, Thursday.
Subcommittees of the National Heritage Area Task Force are starting to meet this week.
The history/sociology subcommittee will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the Douglas County Commission Chambers at the county courthouse, 1100 Mass., to begin discussion of the historical and sociological issues related to the designation of Lawrence as a National Heritage Area.
The architecture and geography subcommittee will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at GLPM Architects, 1001 N.H., to begin work on issues related to architecture and geography involved in the designation. The meetings are open to the public.
Kansas University faculty and staff on Thursday endorsed a Student Senate plan to create a committee to lead discussions on tuition increases.
In approving the measure Thursday, University Council members said they hoped the board would work with administrators to form a tuition proposal that would please all the groups.
The committee, to be comprised of faculty, staff and students, was approved Wednesday by Student Senate.
KU will present its five-year tuition proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents in April.
City crews will begin work today to remove sediment near a box culvert at 31st and Louisiana streets. Work is expected to last from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Thursday.
The removal will clear the box culvert and allow better flow of stormwater in the Naismith channel. The sediment removal has been a joint project between the city and Douglas County. City crews will remove sediment north of 31st Street; county crews recently completed sediment removal south of 31st Street.
The project is being financed by the city’s stormwater utility, a fee established to finance drainage projects and maintenance in town.
A random survey of Wellsville residents suggests the city’s police department should be eliminated.
Wellsville City Clerk Donna Reed said a group recently presented the survey to the city council for review. She said the survey’s comments recommend that the city hire the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office to provide law enforcement protection; it also suggests reviewing the department, including finding ways to reduce costs.
The survey comes about a month after the City Council paid nearly $15,000 in delinquent overtime to police officers and fired the police chief, Randy Hinderliter. Sgt. Mike Reed is serving as interim chief.
Donna Reed said city council members probably would discuss the survey at their next meeting, Thursday.
Subcommittees of the National Heritage Area Task Force are starting to meet this week.
The history/sociology subcommittee will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the Douglas County Commission Chambers at the county courthouse, 1100 Mass., to begin discussion of the historical and sociological issues related to the designation of Lawrence as a National Heritage Area.
The architecture and geography subcommittee will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at GLPM Architects, 1001 N.H., to begin work on issues related to architecture and geography involved in the designation. The meetings are open to the public.
Kansas University faculty and staff on Thursday endorsed a Student Senate plan to create a committee to lead discussions on tuition increases.
In approving the measure Thursday, University Council members said they hoped the board would work with administrators to form a tuition proposal that would please all the groups.
The committee, to be comprised of faculty, staff and students, was approved Wednesday by Student Senate.
KU will present its five-year tuition proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents in April.
City crews will begin work today to remove sediment near a box culvert at 31st and Louisiana streets. Work is expected to last from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day through Thursday.
The removal will clear the box culvert and allow better flow of stormwater in the Naismith channel. The sediment removal has been a joint project between the city and Douglas County. City crews will remove sediment north of 31st Street; county crews recently completed sediment removal south of 31st Street.
The project is being financed by the city’s stormwater utility, a fee established to finance drainage projects and maintenance in town.
A random survey of Wellsville residents suggests the city’s police department should be eliminated.
Wellsville City Clerk Donna Reed said a group recently presented the survey to the city council for review. She said the survey’s comments recommend that the city hire the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office to provide law enforcement protection; it also suggests reviewing the department, including finding ways to reduce costs.
The survey comes about a month after the City Council paid nearly $15,000 in delinquent overtime to police officers and fired the police chief, Randy Hinderliter. Sgt. Mike Reed is serving as interim chief.
Donna Reed said city council members probably would discuss the survey at their next meeting, Thursday.
Subcommittees of the National Heritage Area Task Force are starting to meet this week.
The history/sociology subcommittee will meet at 3:30 p.m. today in the Douglas County Commission Chambers at the county courthouse, 1100 Mass., to begin discussion of the historical and sociological issues related to the designation of Lawrence as a National Heritage Area.
The architecture and geography subcommittee will meet at 10 a.m. Saturday at GLPM Architects, 1001 N.H., to begin work on issues related to architecture and geography involved in the designation. The meetings are open to the public.
Kansas University faculty and staff on Thursday endorsed a Student Senate plan to create a committee to lead discussions on tuition increases.
In approving the measure Thursday, University Council members said they hoped the board would work with administrators to form a tuition proposal that would please all the groups.
The committee, to be comprised of faculty, staff and students, was approved Wednesday by Student Senate.
KU will present its five-year tuition proposal to the Kansas Board of Regents in April.
Hearing difficulties can interfere with personal relationships, self-esteem, job performance and cause people to withdraw from normal activities. An audiologist and Kansas University Medical Center students will offer a free class to teach basic lip-reading skills and techniques to those coping with hearing loss.
The classes begin Thursday and meet each Thursday through Feb. 28, at Roeland Park Community Center, 4850 Rosewood Drive, Roeland Park. Class time is from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The program is free, but reservations are required. To register or to receive more information, call the Med Center at (913) 588-1227, or register online at www.kumed.com.
Two new members will be introduced at the Douglas County Senior Services board of directors annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt.
New members taking seats on the board are Victor Harrod and Cheryl Holcomb.
Bob Johnson, Douglas County commissioner, and Jim Henry, Lawrence city commissioner, will be guest speakers. Refreshments will be served, and the meeting is open to the public.
Rep. Dennis Moore has nominated 30 students, including several from Lawrence and the area, to a U.S. service academy.
A nomination from a congressman or a senator is necessary to seek an academy appointment. In the spring, the academies will notify those students selected to receive an official appointment.
The 30 students gaining Moore’s nominations include Ethan Andyshak, Free State High School; Matthew Harvey, Lawrence High School; Jondavid Hertzel, Baldwin, Free State High School; Matthew Maness, Free State High School. All were U.S. Air Force Academy nominees.
Legal services for those age 60 and older will be the topic of a clinic Jan. 28 at the Kansas University Medical Center.
The Elder Law Clinic is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging, 3599 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan.
William Larzalere, elder law program director at the Center for Aging, will discuss such issues as consumer housing and consumer benefits.
The program is free, but advance registration is required by calling (913) 588-1227 or logging onto www.kumed.com.
Douglas County Senior Services will offer a Motivation Movement class from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 28 and ending March 11.
Kansas University Professor Janet Hamburg will teach the class. Motivating Moves is a movement program especially for older adults to improve their balance, walking speed and flexibility. The program was created by Hamburg, a registered movement therapist and certified movement analyst.
The class will be in the Multipurpose Room at the Senior Center, 745 Vt. To register, call the leisure and learning department at 842-0543.
Kansas University students can talk with employers for the spring semester during a job fair Wednesday.
The fair, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, will include about 20 employers from campus departments and companies in the Lawrence area.
The event is sponsored by Student Employment Services, part of University Career and Employment Services, in room 110 of the Burge Union.
Part-time job vacancies, updated daily, also can be found at www.ku.edu/~uces.
The Mid-America Regional Council will receive a $748,350 grant for transit planning in the Kansas City area.
The MARC has been behind regional efforts ranging from homeland defense to transportation.
The grant comes from National Planning and Research funds provided by Congress for coordinated transit planning activities.
The Heartland Chapter, Fourth Marine Division Association of WWII, will dedicate a monument in memory of their fallen World War II comrades at 2 p.m. Feb. 23 at Veterans Administration Cemetery, near Leavenworth.
The monument will honor those soldiers from Marine, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilian units who died during battles for Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo-Jima islands in the Central Pacific from 1943 to 1945.
Feb. 23 is the 56th anniversary of the raising of the American flag on top of Mount Suribatchi on Iwo Jima.
To reach the cemetery, drive north on Kansas Highway 7 and turn right on Kansas Highway 5. The monument is located just inside the national cemetery, near the second gate on the left. For more information, call Bob Hunt, (913) 649-5350.
Hearing difficulties can interfere with personal relationships, self-esteem, job performance and cause people to withdraw from normal activities. An audiologist and Kansas University Medical Center students will offer a free class to teach basic lip-reading skills and techniques to those coping with hearing loss.
The classes begin Thursday and meet each Thursday through Feb. 28, at Roeland Park Community Center, 4850 Rosewood Drive, Roeland Park. Class time is from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The program is free, but reservations are required. To register or to receive more information, call the Med Center at (913) 588-1227, or register online at www.kumed.com.
Two new members will be introduced at the Douglas County Senior Services board of directors annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt.
New members taking seats on the board are Victor Harrod and Cheryl Holcomb.
Bob Johnson, Douglas County commissioner, and Jim Henry, Lawrence city commissioner, will be guest speakers. Refreshments will be served, and the meeting is open to the public.
Rep. Dennis Moore has nominated 30 students, including several from Lawrence and the area, to a U.S. service academy.
A nomination from a congressman or a senator is necessary to seek an academy appointment. In the spring, the academies will notify those students selected to receive an official appointment.
The 30 students gaining Moore’s nominations include Ethan Andyshak, Free State High School; Matthew Harvey, Lawrence High School; Jondavid Hertzel, Baldwin, Free State High School; Matthew Maness, Free State High School. All were U.S. Air Force Academy nominees.
Legal services for those age 60 and older will be the topic of a clinic Jan. 28 at the Kansas University Medical Center.
The Elder Law Clinic is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging, 3599 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan.
William Larzalere, elder law program director at the Center for Aging, will discuss such issues as consumer housing and consumer benefits.
The program is free, but advance registration is required by calling (913) 588-1227 or logging onto www.kumed.com.
Douglas County Senior Services will offer a Motivation Movement class from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 28 and ending March 11.
Kansas University Professor Janet Hamburg will teach the class. Motivating Moves is a movement program especially for older adults to improve their balance, walking speed and flexibility. The program was created by Hamburg, a registered movement therapist and certified movement analyst.
The class will be in the Multipurpose Room at the Senior Center, 745 Vt. To register, call the leisure and learning department at 842-0543.
Kansas University students can talk with employers for the spring semester during a job fair Wednesday.
The fair, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, will include about 20 employers from campus departments and companies in the Lawrence area.
The event is sponsored by Student Employment Services, part of University Career and Employment Services, in room 110 of the Burge Union.
Part-time job vacancies, updated daily, also can be found at www.ku.edu/~uces.
The Mid-America Regional Council will receive a $748,350 grant for transit planning in the Kansas City area.
The MARC has been behind regional efforts ranging from homeland defense to transportation.
The grant comes from National Planning and Research funds provided by Congress for coordinated transit planning activities.
The Heartland Chapter, Fourth Marine Division Association of WWII, will dedicate a monument in memory of their fallen World War II comrades at 2 p.m. Feb. 23 at Veterans Administration Cemetery, near Leavenworth.
The monument will honor those soldiers from Marine, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilian units who died during battles for Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo-Jima islands in the Central Pacific from 1943 to 1945.
Feb. 23 is the 56th anniversary of the raising of the American flag on top of Mount Suribatchi on Iwo Jima.
To reach the cemetery, drive north on Kansas Highway 7 and turn right on Kansas Highway 5. The monument is located just inside the national cemetery, near the second gate on the left. For more information, call Bob Hunt, (913) 649-5350.
Hearing difficulties can interfere with personal relationships, self-esteem, job performance and cause people to withdraw from normal activities. An audiologist and Kansas University Medical Center students will offer a free class to teach basic lip-reading skills and techniques to those coping with hearing loss.
The classes begin Thursday and meet each Thursday through Feb. 28, at Roeland Park Community Center, 4850 Rosewood Drive, Roeland Park. Class time is from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The program is free, but reservations are required. To register or to receive more information, call the Med Center at (913) 588-1227, or register online at www.kumed.com.
Two new members will be introduced at the Douglas County Senior Services board of directors annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt.
New members taking seats on the board are Victor Harrod and Cheryl Holcomb.
Bob Johnson, Douglas County commissioner, and Jim Henry, Lawrence city commissioner, will be guest speakers. Refreshments will be served, and the meeting is open to the public.
Rep. Dennis Moore has nominated 30 students, including several from Lawrence and the area, to a U.S. service academy.
A nomination from a congressman or a senator is necessary to seek an academy appointment. In the spring, the academies will notify those students selected to receive an official appointment.
The 30 students gaining Moore’s nominations include Ethan Andyshak, Free State High School; Matthew Harvey, Lawrence High School; Jondavid Hertzel, Baldwin, Free State High School; Matthew Maness, Free State High School. All were U.S. Air Force Academy nominees.
Legal services for those age 60 and older will be the topic of a clinic Jan. 28 at the Kansas University Medical Center.
The Elder Law Clinic is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging, 3599 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan.
William Larzalere, elder law program director at the Center for Aging, will discuss such issues as consumer housing and consumer benefits.
The program is free, but advance registration is required by calling (913) 588-1227 or logging onto www.kumed.com.
Douglas County Senior Services will offer a Motivation Movement class from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 28 and ending March 11.
Kansas University Professor Janet Hamburg will teach the class. Motivating Moves is a movement program especially for older adults to improve their balance, walking speed and flexibility. The program was created by Hamburg, a registered movement therapist and certified movement analyst.
The class will be in the Multipurpose Room at the Senior Center, 745 Vt. To register, call the leisure and learning department at 842-0543.
Kansas University students can talk with employers for the spring semester during a job fair Wednesday.
The fair, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, will include about 20 employers from campus departments and companies in the Lawrence area.
The event is sponsored by Student Employment Services, part of University Career and Employment Services, in room 110 of the Burge Union.
Part-time job vacancies, updated daily, also can be found at www.ku.edu/~uces.
The Mid-America Regional Council will receive a $748,350 grant for transit planning in the Kansas City area.
The MARC has been behind regional efforts ranging from homeland defense to transportation.
The grant comes from National Planning and Research funds provided by Congress for coordinated transit planning activities.
The Heartland Chapter, Fourth Marine Division Association of WWII, will dedicate a monument in memory of their fallen World War II comrades at 2 p.m. Feb. 23 at Veterans Administration Cemetery, near Leavenworth.
The monument will honor those soldiers from Marine, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilian units who died during battles for Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo-Jima islands in the Central Pacific from 1943 to 1945.
Feb. 23 is the 56th anniversary of the raising of the American flag on top of Mount Suribatchi on Iwo Jima.
To reach the cemetery, drive north on Kansas Highway 7 and turn right on Kansas Highway 5. The monument is located just inside the national cemetery, near the second gate on the left. For more information, call Bob Hunt, (913) 649-5350.
Hearing difficulties can interfere with personal relationships, self-esteem, job performance and cause people to withdraw from normal activities. An audiologist and Kansas University Medical Center students will offer a free class to teach basic lip-reading skills and techniques to those coping with hearing loss.
The classes begin Thursday and meet each Thursday through Feb. 28, at Roeland Park Community Center, 4850 Rosewood Drive, Roeland Park. Class time is from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The program is free, but reservations are required. To register or to receive more information, call the Med Center at (913) 588-1227, or register online at www.kumed.com.
Two new members will be introduced at the Douglas County Senior Services board of directors annual meeting at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt.
New members taking seats on the board are Victor Harrod and Cheryl Holcomb.
Bob Johnson, Douglas County commissioner, and Jim Henry, Lawrence city commissioner, will be guest speakers. Refreshments will be served, and the meeting is open to the public.
Rep. Dennis Moore has nominated 30 students, including several from Lawrence and the area, to a U.S. service academy.
A nomination from a congressman or a senator is necessary to seek an academy appointment. In the spring, the academies will notify those students selected to receive an official appointment.
The 30 students gaining Moore’s nominations include Ethan Andyshak, Free State High School; Matthew Harvey, Lawrence High School; Jondavid Hertzel, Baldwin, Free State High School; Matthew Maness, Free State High School. All were U.S. Air Force Academy nominees.
Legal services for those age 60 and older will be the topic of a clinic Jan. 28 at the Kansas University Medical Center.
The Elder Law Clinic is from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging, 3599 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, Kan.
William Larzalere, elder law program director at the Center for Aging, will discuss such issues as consumer housing and consumer benefits.
The program is free, but advance registration is required by calling (913) 588-1227 or logging onto www.kumed.com.
Douglas County Senior Services will offer a Motivation Movement class from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Mondays beginning Jan. 28 and ending March 11.
Kansas University Professor Janet Hamburg will teach the class. Motivating Moves is a movement program especially for older adults to improve their balance, walking speed and flexibility. The program was created by Hamburg, a registered movement therapist and certified movement analyst.
The class will be in the Multipurpose Room at the Senior Center, 745 Vt. To register, call the leisure and learning department at 842-0543.
Kansas University students can talk with employers for the spring semester during a job fair Wednesday.
The fair, which runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union, will include about 20 employers from campus departments and companies in the Lawrence area.
The event is sponsored by Student Employment Services, part of University Career and Employment Services, in room 110 of the Burge Union.
Part-time job vacancies, updated daily, also can be found at www.ku.edu/~uces.
The Mid-America Regional Council will receive a $748,350 grant for transit planning in the Kansas City area.
The MARC has been behind regional efforts ranging from homeland defense to transportation.
The grant comes from National Planning and Research funds provided by Congress for coordinated transit planning activities.
The Heartland Chapter, Fourth Marine Division Association of WWII, will dedicate a monument in memory of their fallen World War II comrades at 2 p.m. Feb. 23 at Veterans Administration Cemetery, near Leavenworth.
The monument will honor those soldiers from Marine, Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and civilian units who died during battles for Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo-Jima islands in the Central Pacific from 1943 to 1945.
Feb. 23 is the 56th anniversary of the raising of the American flag on top of Mount Suribatchi on Iwo Jima.
To reach the cemetery, drive north on Kansas Highway 7 and turn right on Kansas Highway 5. The monument is located just inside the national cemetery, near the second gate on the left. For more information, call Bob Hunt, (913) 649-5350.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Yuichi Tamura, sociology, “School Rules in Post Scarcity Japan,” 1 p.m. today, 730 Fraser Hall.
About 40 people Thursday night attended the second of two communitywide forums on economic development in Douglas County.
The three-hour workshops, called “Getting up to Speed on Economic Development in Douglas County,” are intended to guide the county’s Economic Development Advisory Board as it begins rewriting the economic development chapter of Horizon 2020, the city and county’s planning guide.
Both forums served as “basic primers” of the economics of Douglas County and included reviews of economic trends, data such as employment figures, and a history of economic development in the area.
The board will hold public hearings on the plan at each city in the county beginning in February. Board members hope to have a draft of the new plan for city and county commissioners to consider in June.
Lawrence Police are investigating possible embezzlement at Free State Credit Union, 901 Iowa.
An audit found evidence of embezzlement, although losses are not yet determined, police Sgt. Mark Warren said. Police were notified Friday, but the embezzlement is believed to have occurred between Sept. 21 and Oct. 27, 2001.
There are three suspects, a man and two women, Warren said. They had been employed at the credit union but police reports didn’t indicate whether they are still working at the business. No arrests have been made.
Kansas University has made progress toward its goal of being a top-25 research university, according to National Science Foundation rankings announced this week.
KU climbed two spots to 51st among public universities and five spots to 78th among all universities. The rankings measured the amount of federal research grants spent by a university during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.
KU’s federal funds reached about $69 million during the year, an increase of about 21 percent from fiscal year 1999.
KU’s rate of increase slowed from last year’s rankings, when KU jumped 10 spots among public universities and seven spots among all universities.
DeSoto suspect pleads guilty to drug charge
Kansas City, Kan. A DeSoto man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.
Kevin Davis, 41, admitted he attempted to make methamphetamine in his DeSoto apartment in July 2000, U.S. Atty. Jim Flory said.
Davis faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison without parole.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Yuichi Tamura, sociology, “School Rules in Post Scarcity Japan,” 1 p.m. today, 730 Fraser Hall.
About 40 people Thursday night attended the second of two communitywide forums on economic development in Douglas County.
The three-hour workshops, called “Getting up to Speed on Economic Development in Douglas County,” are intended to guide the county’s Economic Development Advisory Board as it begins rewriting the economic development chapter of Horizon 2020, the city and county’s planning guide.
Both forums served as “basic primers” of the economics of Douglas County and included reviews of economic trends, data such as employment figures, and a history of economic development in the area.
The board will hold public hearings on the plan at each city in the county beginning in February. Board members hope to have a draft of the new plan for city and county commissioners to consider in June.
Lawrence Police are investigating possible embezzlement at Free State Credit Union, 901 Iowa.
An audit found evidence of embezzlement, although losses are not yet determined, police Sgt. Mark Warren said. Police were notified Friday, but the embezzlement is believed to have occurred between Sept. 21 and Oct. 27, 2001.
There are three suspects, a man and two women, Warren said. They had been employed at the credit union but police reports didn’t indicate whether they are still working at the business. No arrests have been made.
Kansas University has made progress toward its goal of being a top-25 research university, according to National Science Foundation rankings announced this week.
KU climbed two spots to 51st among public universities and five spots to 78th among all universities. The rankings measured the amount of federal research grants spent by a university during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.
KU’s federal funds reached about $69 million during the year, an increase of about 21 percent from fiscal year 1999.
KU’s rate of increase slowed from last year’s rankings, when KU jumped 10 spots among public universities and seven spots among all universities.
DeSoto suspect pleads guilty to drug charge
Kansas City, Kan. A DeSoto man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.
Kevin Davis, 41, admitted he attempted to make methamphetamine in his DeSoto apartment in July 2000, U.S. Atty. Jim Flory said.
Davis faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison without parole.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Yuichi Tamura, sociology, “School Rules in Post Scarcity Japan,” 1 p.m. today, 730 Fraser Hall.
About 40 people Thursday night attended the second of two communitywide forums on economic development in Douglas County.
The three-hour workshops, called “Getting up to Speed on Economic Development in Douglas County,” are intended to guide the county’s Economic Development Advisory Board as it begins rewriting the economic development chapter of Horizon 2020, the city and county’s planning guide.
Both forums served as “basic primers” of the economics of Douglas County and included reviews of economic trends, data such as employment figures, and a history of economic development in the area.
The board will hold public hearings on the plan at each city in the county beginning in February. Board members hope to have a draft of the new plan for city and county commissioners to consider in June.
Lawrence Police are investigating possible embezzlement at Free State Credit Union, 901 Iowa.
An audit found evidence of embezzlement, although losses are not yet determined, police Sgt. Mark Warren said. Police were notified Friday, but the embezzlement is believed to have occurred between Sept. 21 and Oct. 27, 2001.
There are three suspects, a man and two women, Warren said. They had been employed at the credit union but police reports didn’t indicate whether they are still working at the business. No arrests have been made.
Kansas University has made progress toward its goal of being a top-25 research university, according to National Science Foundation rankings announced this week.
KU climbed two spots to 51st among public universities and five spots to 78th among all universities. The rankings measured the amount of federal research grants spent by a university during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.
KU’s federal funds reached about $69 million during the year, an increase of about 21 percent from fiscal year 1999.
KU’s rate of increase slowed from last year’s rankings, when KU jumped 10 spots among public universities and seven spots among all universities.
DeSoto suspect pleads guilty to drug charge
Kansas City, Kan. A DeSoto man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.
Kevin Davis, 41, admitted he attempted to make methamphetamine in his DeSoto apartment in July 2000, U.S. Atty. Jim Flory said.
Davis faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison without parole.
Kansas University has announced the following final examination:
Yuichi Tamura, sociology, “School Rules in Post Scarcity Japan,” 1 p.m. today, 730 Fraser Hall.
About 40 people Thursday night attended the second of two communitywide forums on economic development in Douglas County.
The three-hour workshops, called “Getting up to Speed on Economic Development in Douglas County,” are intended to guide the county’s Economic Development Advisory Board as it begins rewriting the economic development chapter of Horizon 2020, the city and county’s planning guide.
Both forums served as “basic primers” of the economics of Douglas County and included reviews of economic trends, data such as employment figures, and a history of economic development in the area.
The board will hold public hearings on the plan at each city in the county beginning in February. Board members hope to have a draft of the new plan for city and county commissioners to consider in June.
Lawrence Police are investigating possible embezzlement at Free State Credit Union, 901 Iowa.
An audit found evidence of embezzlement, although losses are not yet determined, police Sgt. Mark Warren said. Police were notified Friday, but the embezzlement is believed to have occurred between Sept. 21 and Oct. 27, 2001.
There are three suspects, a man and two women, Warren said. They had been employed at the credit union but police reports didn’t indicate whether they are still working at the business. No arrests have been made.
Kansas University has made progress toward its goal of being a top-25 research university, according to National Science Foundation rankings announced this week.
KU climbed two spots to 51st among public universities and five spots to 78th among all universities. The rankings measured the amount of federal research grants spent by a university during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.
KU’s federal funds reached about $69 million during the year, an increase of about 21 percent from fiscal year 1999.
KU’s rate of increase slowed from last year’s rankings, when KU jumped 10 spots among public universities and seven spots among all universities.
DeSoto suspect pleads guilty to drug charge
Kansas City, Kan. A DeSoto man pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to one count of attempting to manufacture methamphetamine.
Kevin Davis, 41, admitted he attempted to make methamphetamine in his DeSoto apartment in July 2000, U.S. Atty. Jim Flory said.
Davis faces a maximum of 20 years in federal prison without parole.
A flag, its pole and a banner were taken earlier this week from the front of Kansas University’s Hillel House, 940 Miss.
Hillel House is an organization for Jewish students. There is no reason to think the theft is a hate crime, said Lawrence Police and Hillel House Director Susan Shafer-Landau.
“There has been nothing else that has happened to indicate (a hate crime),” Shafer-Landau said.
The theft is thought to have occurred sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, police reported.
The flag pole was attached to a porch post, and the banner also was on the front of the house, Shafer-Landau said. The banner is 6 feet by 3 feet. Both the flag and the banner have stitching in the outline of the Campanile Hill and Tower on them. The flag also shows the Jewish star. Losses were estimated at $570.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence will be host to the Kansas/Missouri District of Pilot International Fall Council Saturday and Sunday at the Lawrence Holidome.
Presenters will be Jan Biles, features-arts editor at the Journal-World; Peggy Walls, executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri; Dr. Ivan Osorio, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Kansas University Medical Center; Meredith Leary, Lawrence; The Heritage Panel from the Lawrence high schools; and Pansy Morgan, executive administrative representation of Pilot International.
Also in attendance will be Helen Stephenson, governor of the Kansas/Missouri district.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence was organized in 1958 and is made up of business and professional women who do service projects to meet the community’s needs. The club’s only money-making project is the Lawrence Antique Show, which is scheduled Sept. 26-28 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
A Lawrence man is in the Douglas County Jail awaiting charges he took a pit bull puppy during a Thursday morning burglary.
The 22-year-old suspect about 4 a.m. allegedly entered a home in the 1700 block of Vermont, confronting two women and a man, Lawrence Police reported.
The suspect demanded the pit bull and got into a fight with the man, also 22, who was in the house. The suspect then left, taking the dog with him.
He returned a short time later and used an object to scratch a car parked outside the residence, police said.
Alerted, police later found the suspect at a home in the 1300 block of Connecticut Street. He was arrested and taken to jail for aggravated burglary, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor damage to property, according to a jail log entry. It was unclear whether the dog was recovered.
No bond has been set, and the suspect is to appear today in Douglas County District Court.
Jayhawk fans are planning a rally at the Kansas State Fair this weekend.
The rally at 2:30 pm. Sunday at Lake Talbott on the fairgrounds will include appearances by Al Bohl, Kansas University athletics director; Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for university relations; and Fred Williams, president of the KU Alumni Assn.
The rally also will feature the Alumni Band and Baby Jay. Two basketballs autographed by men’s basketball coach Roy Williams will be given away.
Throughout the fair, which runs Sunday through Sept. 17, KU faculty and staff members will work shifts in the university’s booth in the Meadowlark Building. The booth’s theme is “Planet Jayhawk,” keeping with the fair’s theme, “2001: A State Fair Odyssey.”
A flag, its pole and a banner were taken earlier this week from the front of Kansas University’s Hillel House, 940 Miss.
Hillel House is an organization for Jewish students. There is no reason to think the theft is a hate crime, said Lawrence Police and Hillel House Director Susan Shafer-Landau.
“There has been nothing else that has happened to indicate (a hate crime),” Shafer-Landau said.
The theft is thought to have occurred sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, police reported.
The flag pole was attached to a porch post, and the banner also was on the front of the house, Shafer-Landau said. The banner is 6 feet by 3 feet. Both the flag and the banner have stitching in the outline of the Campanile Hill and Tower on them. The flag also shows the Jewish star. Losses were estimated at $570.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence will be host to the Kansas/Missouri District of Pilot International Fall Council Saturday and Sunday at the Lawrence Holidome.
Presenters will be Jan Biles, features-arts editor at the Journal-World; Peggy Walls, executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri; Dr. Ivan Osorio, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Kansas University Medical Center; Meredith Leary, Lawrence; The Heritage Panel from the Lawrence high schools; and Pansy Morgan, executive administrative representation of Pilot International.
Also in attendance will be Helen Stephenson, governor of the Kansas/Missouri district.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence was organized in 1958 and is made up of business and professional women who do service projects to meet the community’s needs. The club’s only money-making project is the Lawrence Antique Show, which is scheduled Sept. 26-28 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
A Lawrence man is in the Douglas County Jail awaiting charges he took a pit bull puppy during a Thursday morning burglary.
The 22-year-old suspect about 4 a.m. allegedly entered a home in the 1700 block of Vermont, confronting two women and a man, Lawrence Police reported.
The suspect demanded the pit bull and got into a fight with the man, also 22, who was in the house. The suspect then left, taking the dog with him.
He returned a short time later and used an object to scratch a car parked outside the residence, police said.
Alerted, police later found the suspect at a home in the 1300 block of Connecticut Street. He was arrested and taken to jail for aggravated burglary, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor damage to property, according to a jail log entry. It was unclear whether the dog was recovered.
No bond has been set, and the suspect is to appear today in Douglas County District Court.
Jayhawk fans are planning a rally at the Kansas State Fair this weekend.
The rally at 2:30 pm. Sunday at Lake Talbott on the fairgrounds will include appearances by Al Bohl, Kansas University athletics director; Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for university relations; and Fred Williams, president of the KU Alumni Assn.
The rally also will feature the Alumni Band and Baby Jay. Two basketballs autographed by men’s basketball coach Roy Williams will be given away.
Throughout the fair, which runs Sunday through Sept. 17, KU faculty and staff members will work shifts in the university’s booth in the Meadowlark Building. The booth’s theme is “Planet Jayhawk,” keeping with the fair’s theme, “2001: A State Fair Odyssey.”
A flag, its pole and a banner were taken earlier this week from the front of Kansas University’s Hillel House, 940 Miss.
Hillel House is an organization for Jewish students. There is no reason to think the theft is a hate crime, said Lawrence Police and Hillel House Director Susan Shafer-Landau.
“There has been nothing else that has happened to indicate (a hate crime),” Shafer-Landau said.
The theft is thought to have occurred sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, police reported.
The flag pole was attached to a porch post, and the banner also was on the front of the house, Shafer-Landau said. The banner is 6 feet by 3 feet. Both the flag and the banner have stitching in the outline of the Campanile Hill and Tower on them. The flag also shows the Jewish star. Losses were estimated at $570.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence will be host to the Kansas/Missouri District of Pilot International Fall Council Saturday and Sunday at the Lawrence Holidome.
Presenters will be Jan Biles, features-arts editor at the Journal-World; Peggy Walls, executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri; Dr. Ivan Osorio, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Kansas University Medical Center; Meredith Leary, Lawrence; The Heritage Panel from the Lawrence high schools; and Pansy Morgan, executive administrative representation of Pilot International.
Also in attendance will be Helen Stephenson, governor of the Kansas/Missouri district.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence was organized in 1958 and is made up of business and professional women who do service projects to meet the community’s needs. The club’s only money-making project is the Lawrence Antique Show, which is scheduled Sept. 26-28 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
A Lawrence man is in the Douglas County Jail awaiting charges he took a pit bull puppy during a Thursday morning burglary.
The 22-year-old suspect about 4 a.m. allegedly entered a home in the 1700 block of Vermont, confronting two women and a man, Lawrence Police reported.
The suspect demanded the pit bull and got into a fight with the man, also 22, who was in the house. The suspect then left, taking the dog with him.
He returned a short time later and used an object to scratch a car parked outside the residence, police said.
Alerted, police later found the suspect at a home in the 1300 block of Connecticut Street. He was arrested and taken to jail for aggravated burglary, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor damage to property, according to a jail log entry. It was unclear whether the dog was recovered.
No bond has been set, and the suspect is to appear today in Douglas County District Court.
Jayhawk fans are planning a rally at the Kansas State Fair this weekend.
The rally at 2:30 pm. Sunday at Lake Talbott on the fairgrounds will include appearances by Al Bohl, Kansas University athletics director; Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for university relations; and Fred Williams, president of the KU Alumni Assn.
The rally also will feature the Alumni Band and Baby Jay. Two basketballs autographed by men’s basketball coach Roy Williams will be given away.
Throughout the fair, which runs Sunday through Sept. 17, KU faculty and staff members will work shifts in the university’s booth in the Meadowlark Building. The booth’s theme is “Planet Jayhawk,” keeping with the fair’s theme, “2001: A State Fair Odyssey.”
A flag, its pole and a banner were taken earlier this week from the front of Kansas University’s Hillel House, 940 Miss.
Hillel House is an organization for Jewish students. There is no reason to think the theft is a hate crime, said Lawrence Police and Hillel House Director Susan Shafer-Landau.
“There has been nothing else that has happened to indicate (a hate crime),” Shafer-Landau said.
The theft is thought to have occurred sometime between Sunday and Tuesday, police reported.
The flag pole was attached to a porch post, and the banner also was on the front of the house, Shafer-Landau said. The banner is 6 feet by 3 feet. Both the flag and the banner have stitching in the outline of the Campanile Hill and Tower on them. The flag also shows the Jewish star. Losses were estimated at $570.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence will be host to the Kansas/Missouri District of Pilot International Fall Council Saturday and Sunday at the Lawrence Holidome.
Presenters will be Jan Biles, features-arts editor at the Journal-World; Peggy Walls, executive director of the Epilepsy Foundation of Kansas and Western Missouri; Dr. Ivan Osorio, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Center at the Kansas University Medical Center; Meredith Leary, Lawrence; The Heritage Panel from the Lawrence high schools; and Pansy Morgan, executive administrative representation of Pilot International.
Also in attendance will be Helen Stephenson, governor of the Kansas/Missouri district.
The Pilot Club of Lawrence was organized in 1958 and is made up of business and professional women who do service projects to meet the community’s needs. The club’s only money-making project is the Lawrence Antique Show, which is scheduled Sept. 26-28 at the Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds.
A Lawrence man is in the Douglas County Jail awaiting charges he took a pit bull puppy during a Thursday morning burglary.
The 22-year-old suspect about 4 a.m. allegedly entered a home in the 1700 block of Vermont, confronting two women and a man, Lawrence Police reported.
The suspect demanded the pit bull and got into a fight with the man, also 22, who was in the house. The suspect then left, taking the dog with him.
He returned a short time later and used an object to scratch a car parked outside the residence, police said.
Alerted, police later found the suspect at a home in the 1300 block of Connecticut Street. He was arrested and taken to jail for aggravated burglary, misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor damage to property, according to a jail log entry. It was unclear whether the dog was recovered.
No bond has been set, and the suspect is to appear today in Douglas County District Court.
Jayhawk fans are planning a rally at the Kansas State Fair this weekend.
The rally at 2:30 pm. Sunday at Lake Talbott on the fairgrounds will include appearances by Al Bohl, Kansas University athletics director; Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for university relations; and Fred Williams, president of the KU Alumni Assn.
The rally also will feature the Alumni Band and Baby Jay. Two basketballs autographed by men’s basketball coach Roy Williams will be given away.
Throughout the fair, which runs Sunday through Sept. 17, KU faculty and staff members will work shifts in the university’s booth in the Meadowlark Building. The booth’s theme is “Planet Jayhawk,” keeping with the fair’s theme, “2001: A State Fair Odyssey.”
Danielle Skinner was the winner of this year’s 4-H Royalty Contest at the Douglas County Free Fair.
Skinner, 16, of Lawrence, earned the most points to take the title.
Contestants gave a public talk, did a personal interview with judges, took a written test about the 4-H horse show and did a riding test on Saturday at the horse show.
Last year, Skinner placed third. She said the difference was in an improved public talk she spoke about the closing of horse trails at Clinton Lake State Park.
Area organizations receive Union Pacific grants
Omaha, Neb. The Kansas University Endowment Association, United Way of Douglas County and Kansas University were among 23 nonprofit organizations selected to receive $160,000 in grants, ranging from $1,000 to $25,000, from the Union Pacific Foundation.
The foundation gives grants to assist organizations in education, health and human services, community and civic activities, and fine arts.
A reception for Janet Murguia, the new executive vice chancellor for university relations at Kansas University, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Reginald Robinson, counselor to the chancellor, will attend. Kansas politicians and friends of Murguia have been invited as well.
Murguia started her new job July 1. She oversees the university’s relations with the public, including governmental and public affairs.
Deadline nears to register for conference on aging
Topeka The Sunflower Summer Conference on Aging will be Aug. 7-9 in the Henderson Learning Resources Center at Washburn University.
The conference will provide workshops on a variety of topics related to aging and long-term care. Featured speakers and their topics are Naomi Feil, “Breaking Through Dementia,” and Ron Willis, “Sensitive Communication in Health Care.”
Costs are $60 for Feil’s and Willis’ presentations and $30 for each workshop. A $10 late fee will be assessed after Aug. 1.
For more information, call the Washburn University division of continuing education, (785) 231-1010, ext. 1399.
The organization that provides blood to 77 regional hospitals, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, has reported a critical blood shortage.
A Community Blood Center spokesman said 1,100 pints of blood are needed within the next two weeks to assure hospitals are adequately stocked.
Cause of the shortage is high demand coupled with a lack of donors. Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in good health.
The Lawrence donor center is at 535 Gateway Drive. For more information, call 1 (800) 279-5943.
Danielle Skinner was the winner of this year’s 4-H Royalty Contest at the Douglas County Free Fair.
Skinner, 16, of Lawrence, earned the most points to take the title.
Contestants gave a public talk, did a personal interview with judges, took a written test about the 4-H horse show and did a riding test on Saturday at the horse show.
Last year, Skinner placed third. She said the difference was in an improved public talk she spoke about the closing of horse trails at Clinton Lake State Park.
Area organizations receive Union Pacific grants
Omaha, Neb. The Kansas University Endowment Association, United Way of Douglas County and Kansas University were among 23 nonprofit organizations selected to receive $160,000 in grants, ranging from $1,000 to $25,000, from the Union Pacific Foundation.
The foundation gives grants to assist organizations in education, health and human services, community and civic activities, and fine arts.
A reception for Janet Murguia, the new executive vice chancellor for university relations at Kansas University, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Reginald Robinson, counselor to the chancellor, will attend. Kansas politicians and friends of Murguia have been invited as well.
Murguia started her new job July 1. She oversees the university’s relations with the public, including governmental and public affairs.
Deadline nears to register for conference on aging
Topeka The Sunflower Summer Conference on Aging will be Aug. 7-9 in the Henderson Learning Resources Center at Washburn University.
The conference will provide workshops on a variety of topics related to aging and long-term care. Featured speakers and their topics are Naomi Feil, “Breaking Through Dementia,” and Ron Willis, “Sensitive Communication in Health Care.”
Costs are $60 for Feil’s and Willis’ presentations and $30 for each workshop. A $10 late fee will be assessed after Aug. 1.
For more information, call the Washburn University division of continuing education, (785) 231-1010, ext. 1399.
The organization that provides blood to 77 regional hospitals, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, has reported a critical blood shortage.
A Community Blood Center spokesman said 1,100 pints of blood are needed within the next two weeks to assure hospitals are adequately stocked.
Cause of the shortage is high demand coupled with a lack of donors. Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in good health.
The Lawrence donor center is at 535 Gateway Drive. For more information, call 1 (800) 279-5943.
Danielle Skinner was the winner of this year’s 4-H Royalty Contest at the Douglas County Free Fair.
Skinner, 16, of Lawrence, earned the most points to take the title.
Contestants gave a public talk, did a personal interview with judges, took a written test about the 4-H horse show and did a riding test on Saturday at the horse show.
Last year, Skinner placed third. She said the difference was in an improved public talk she spoke about the closing of horse trails at Clinton Lake State Park.
Area organizations receive Union Pacific grants
Omaha, Neb. The Kansas University Endowment Association, United Way of Douglas County and Kansas University were among 23 nonprofit organizations selected to receive $160,000 in grants, ranging from $1,000 to $25,000, from the Union Pacific Foundation.
The foundation gives grants to assist organizations in education, health and human services, community and civic activities, and fine arts.
A reception for Janet Murguia, the new executive vice chancellor for university relations at Kansas University, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Reginald Robinson, counselor to the chancellor, will attend. Kansas politicians and friends of Murguia have been invited as well.
Murguia started her new job July 1. She oversees the university’s relations with the public, including governmental and public affairs.
Deadline nears to register for conference on aging
Topeka The Sunflower Summer Conference on Aging will be Aug. 7-9 in the Henderson Learning Resources Center at Washburn University.
The conference will provide workshops on a variety of topics related to aging and long-term care. Featured speakers and their topics are Naomi Feil, “Breaking Through Dementia,” and Ron Willis, “Sensitive Communication in Health Care.”
Costs are $60 for Feil’s and Willis’ presentations and $30 for each workshop. A $10 late fee will be assessed after Aug. 1.
For more information, call the Washburn University division of continuing education, (785) 231-1010, ext. 1399.
The organization that provides blood to 77 regional hospitals, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, has reported a critical blood shortage.
A Community Blood Center spokesman said 1,100 pints of blood are needed within the next two weeks to assure hospitals are adequately stocked.
Cause of the shortage is high demand coupled with a lack of donors. Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in good health.
The Lawrence donor center is at 535 Gateway Drive. For more information, call 1 (800) 279-5943.
Danielle Skinner was the winner of this year’s 4-H Royalty Contest at the Douglas County Free Fair.
Skinner, 16, of Lawrence, earned the most points to take the title.
Contestants gave a public talk, did a personal interview with judges, took a written test about the 4-H horse show and did a riding test on Saturday at the horse show.
Last year, Skinner placed third. She said the difference was in an improved public talk she spoke about the closing of horse trails at Clinton Lake State Park.
Area organizations receive Union Pacific grants
Omaha, Neb. The Kansas University Endowment Association, United Way of Douglas County and Kansas University were among 23 nonprofit organizations selected to receive $160,000 in grants, ranging from $1,000 to $25,000, from the Union Pacific Foundation.
The foundation gives grants to assist organizations in education, health and human services, community and civic activities, and fine arts.
A reception for Janet Murguia, the new executive vice chancellor for university relations at Kansas University, will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. today in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room in the U.S. Capitol.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Reginald Robinson, counselor to the chancellor, will attend. Kansas politicians and friends of Murguia have been invited as well.
Murguia started her new job July 1. She oversees the university’s relations with the public, including governmental and public affairs.
Deadline nears to register for conference on aging
Topeka The Sunflower Summer Conference on Aging will be Aug. 7-9 in the Henderson Learning Resources Center at Washburn University.
The conference will provide workshops on a variety of topics related to aging and long-term care. Featured speakers and their topics are Naomi Feil, “Breaking Through Dementia,” and Ron Willis, “Sensitive Communication in Health Care.”
Costs are $60 for Feil’s and Willis’ presentations and $30 for each workshop. A $10 late fee will be assessed after Aug. 1.
For more information, call the Washburn University division of continuing education, (785) 231-1010, ext. 1399.
The organization that provides blood to 77 regional hospitals, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, has reported a critical blood shortage.
A Community Blood Center spokesman said 1,100 pints of blood are needed within the next two weeks to assure hospitals are adequately stocked.
Cause of the shortage is high demand coupled with a lack of donors. Donors must be at least 17 years old, weigh 110 pounds or more and be in good health.
The Lawrence donor center is at 535 Gateway Drive. For more information, call 1 (800) 279-5943.
