Shawnee Dispatch (Newspaper) - September 24, 2008, Shawnee, Kansas ACCIDENT TURNS The Shawnee SEPTEMBER 2008 ONLINE 35 75 cents Waiting to expand Pilot program to stay for 3A Commentary FALLING 8N OT Shawnee Mission North will try to bounce back from a 3327 overtime loss at PAGE IB Justice Center doors open Visitors give stamp of approval to new million complex CAROLINE BOYER Tammy Manthei couldnt keep the smile from her face Saturday as she excitedly welcomed the visitors who stepped into the new Shawnee Munic The open house and ribbon cutting for the new Shawnee Justice 5850 Rentier near Johnson Drive and Interstate was a bit more frus for the court however while the police and firefighters have been enjoying their new home since at least last the court department will not move out of City Hall until Thursday and For who was a member of the citys employee committee that helped plan for the Justice those days cant come soon She pointed out all of the benefits of the new courtroom that arent avail able in City including a finger printing station so those convicted wont have to make appointments to be fingerprinted at a later date and direct access to holding cells for pris keeping them separate from the In between she expressed her desire to make use of all these need ed Its been a long time I cant wait until next week is she Just get us out here Even without indepth knowledge of the benefits of the new visitors to the open house were giving the Justice Center their stamp of They had access to the usual infor mation about the citys inner workings and services offered at the annual Safe ty Center Open formerly staged at Fire Station 71 and the former police department at 6535 Quivira But they also had a chance for an upclose look at the million proj See page 3A KEVIN SOME OF THE UNIQUE features at the Shawnee Justice Center include the bifold doors in the new fire The design creates a quicker time for the doors to open when emergency vehicles are leaving the Son battling just like dad CAROLINE BOYER In the past four James Dooley has had to learn a lot about being sick and having to go to the hospi At the mention of the treat ments hes endured since his leukemia diagnosis June the young Shawnee resident says My chemo I go to the and goes back to James has done an amazing job trying not to let his illness keep him from being a nor mal said his par Tina and Sean Sean has particular reason to be amazed it was only a little less than five years ago that he was going through chemotherapy treatments himself for Having already battled the Sean hopes his expe rience will help Its still quite a but at the same well be able to deal with get Scan Dooley Having gone through it that probably makes it a little some of the Dooleys Shawnee neighbors hope to do their part to make things easier for the On they have organized a trail ride to help the family with a mounting pile of medical James was diagnosed after he had been running fevers off and on in causing enough concern for his par ents to take him into a health Of theyd find nothing and write it a virus or something going Sean Dooley One we ended up taking him to the hospital because he was yellow in He just didnt look After running several doctors finally diagnosed James with acute lym leukemia that and he was immediately taken to Childrens Mercy Hospital in Kansas doctors told the Doo leys that James cancer was the most common and most Its not good that he has it to start but its the good kind to Sean Dooley But its still a strain on such a little James soon had had four blood two platelet bone marrow chemotherapy treatments and spinal He had a double port inserted in his which became infected about a week after he was first released from the hospital July The Staph infection put him back in the hospital July and he began having trouble walking after all of his His parents said he walked and obviously hurting from the bone marrow tests and spinal but he never complained of any James was given KEVIN FOR SEAN AND TINA DOOLEY their 3yearold son is like most children his age who just want to play outside and throw the ball But young James also has learned about going to the and at his young antibiotics intravenously for 14 days and had another blood transfusion during this hospital The infected port was removed and a new one inserted a week After 17 days in the James was released to go home again Now he goes into the hos pital every Thursday for two to chemotherapy Hell do this for See page 2A Survey supports western Shawnee center CAROLINE BOYER I O Shawnee residents love their hiking and biking Thats what the data of a recent citizen survey information that likely will be considered when Shawnee City Council members decide how best to use the citys limited funds for city But one key survey question found resi dents also are eager for a west ern community center and indoor The Public Works and Safety Committee last week reviewed results of the Park Needs Assessment conducted by Vision in April and Both phone and mail surveys were and though the goal was to get at least 600 681 were turned in or Tonya deputy tor of parks and said the needs assessment surveys are conducted every five and the responses to this years survey were similar to the last survey though 22 percent of the respondents had lived in Shawnee less than five and another 20 percent had lived here less than 10 If you look at the amount of people who answered the sur weve got a lot of new peo ple moving into the and See page SA BE HEARD Register your comment on this or other stories in The Dispatch by going online to School enrollment up in De down in Shawnee Mission ELVYN JONES AND JOHN TAYLOR Neither De Soto USD 232 officials nor Shawnee Mission USD 512 were surprised when official enrollment numbers were calculated this week to send on to the Kansas Department of The difference is enrollment is up in De Soto schools numbers are down in Shawnee Mission The number of fulltime equivalent a number that counts pre kindergarten and kindergarten as half a in the De Soto district was Shawnee Mission estimated its The state now will audit the number to determine the district enrollment for the purpose of The official number in De Soto equated to an FTE increase of 348 stu dents from the 20072008 school The district was expecting an FTE increase of 350 district plan ning and operations director Jack Deyoe Shawnee Mission schools are down about from a year or about 142 more than The actual of students in De Soto schools is or when prekindergarten students are included in Shawnee Mission head count stands at DE SOTO NUMBERS The numbers reveal USD 232 con to be a young The num ber of kindergarten and second and outnumber those stu dents in the four high school grades to Just as last years graduating class was the last grade level in the De Soto district to total less than 300 this years senior class is the last to have See tage 2A Call us 913 9623000 Online
