Lansing Current (Newspaper) - April 6, 2006, Lansing, Kansas POLICE REPORT PROMPTS WARNING FOR YOUNG CELL PHONE 8A THE LANSING CURRENT 25 cents THURSDAY APRIL 2006 VOLUME KANSAS TELEPHONE 7271525 FAX 7271772 SPORTS SENIOR THROWS FOR RECORD tops javelin field at Baldwin IB INSIDE Keeping Neighbors SJ IS m 131V1311 Jfi M f It from Lansing High School Kansas SPECIAL TO THE CURRENT A SIGN in Chinese and English welcomes Lansing teachers and students to Kaifeng 5 Middle School in China A TRIP TO REMEMBER Drivers gamble with left turns at Main Ida Police keep busy citing motorists BY JOHN TAYLOR Plenty of drivers are willing to gamble a fine to make a left turn onto Ida Street from Main Police Chief Steve Wayman surmises he could station an officer at the intersection on a fulltime basis to write citations for the illegal and drivers still would press their Weve done everything we can to inform people that you cant make a left turn The city has done everything it can to inform peo ple are making left turns Wayman said earlier this Left turns from the north bound lane of Main Street onto Ida have been prohibited since when crews from Kansas Gas Service closed Mains outer northbound lane as they prepared to move utili ty lines ahead of the Main Street System Enhancement road Wayman said patrol officers spent much of Friday pulling over and issuing verbal warn ings to drivers who had made the illegal left Officers stopped giving the warnings and began writing citations this past The fine in municipal court is SEE PAGE 9A SPECIAL TO THE CURRENT LANSING HIGH SCHOOL students and teachers and some of their hosts from Kaifeng 5 Middle School visit the Longmen Grottoes in during the LHS groups trip to China last Visit to China gives students new appreciation for culture BY KATIE KRITIKOS Lansing High School students and teachers who traveled to China for two weeks last month could hardly stop talking about the the the food and the overall expe rience when they returned last After just three days in librarian Debra Hutton said she was ready to go She said she spent all weekend telling her friends about the and on Sunday she found herself in an Asian food market looking for foods shed grown accus Im amazed by how much I loved she The group of eight students and three teachers was participating in an exchange program with Kaifeng 5 Middle They left before spring break on March 17 and returned late March While in the students and teachers shadowed their counterparts at the school and traveled around the English teacher Linda Leffler said the group spent two full days and a few partial days at the Chinese When they there was a large welcoming party and banner for the Lansing she They really went out of their way to make us feel sue While they were at the Leffler said the Chinese students asked a myriad of questions about American They wondered how American students are accepted to where geographically the visitors were born and what types of pets Americans Leffler said the Chinese had very little idea about Mexican so the Lansing delega tion tried to explain a One perception the Chinese stu dents communicated was that they worked harder than American stu Junior Rachel Schifferle said she thought the Chinese studied more dif but they werent neces sarily all working There were still students who were sleeping in class and talking back to she SEE PACE 6A ONLINE For a photo galleries from the Lansing High School students and teachers trip to go to SAM MISS KANSAS USA Ashley Aull meets wellwishers Friday at a surprise sendoff at The Overlook who lives in has left for Baltimore to compete in this years Miss USA National stage awaits LHS grad Aull leaves to compete for Miss USA BY JOANNA While many college stu dents around the country were jetting off to exotic locations on spring Lansings Ashley Aull was preparing to represent her state at the Miss USA Pageant in Baltimore on April 20 years old and with blonde hair and blue has been preparing for the national pageant since being crowned Miss Kansas USA 2006 in November and is excited about the possibilities the pag eant As part of the first place the winner will live in an apartment at Trump Towers in New York City dur ing her title Donald Trump is the owner of the Miss Universe Organization that produces the If I I wont be coming back for a Aull said SEE PAGE IDA to raise funds for school foundation BY KATIE KRITIKOS Lansing Educational Foundation Fund raised at its first breakfast last and its board of directors hopes to improve on that feat this The created in 2004 to raise money for Lansing school district to sup state will have its second annual cam breakfast at 7 April at Lansing Middle 509 Ida Kyle board president for the said the group had not set a specific ing goal for the the organizations overall goal is to have more money to make available to the Like last the breakfast will feature a speaker and will honor students in the Michael chairman and chief executive officer of Great Plains Energy in Kansas will speak at involvements show his interest in education is a trustee of the University of Missouri Kansas City and serves on the Early Learning Leadership Board of the Regional I think hell be a very inter esting and good Kelly Lansing students will be honored for high scores on the state assessments and National Merit Commended and National Achievement Program students also will rec About 75 students in all will be honored and receive said Donna assistant schools Kelly said the teachers who received Educate the Pride grants from the organ ization will be Breakfast will be served buf beginning at 7 and Chesser will speak about Hughes Kelly said he liked the idea of the breakfast because it brings together people from schools and the community and helps them to connect through sharing com mon I feel like were making he Were just excited about Current Updates keep you informed of breaking news