KU Haskell host three spring powwows in Lawrence
Billy Horse of the Kiowa tribe will sing at a Saturday powwow in the Kansas Union ballroom at KU, kicking off three spring events in Lawrence. The program runs 6 p.m. to midnight with grand entry at 7 p.m., featuring men and women dance categories, youth contests, and a Little Soldier drum group from Horton. Vendors offer American Indian arts and crafts and refreshments. A second event, April 29, is an outdoor pow wow at Haskell with grand entry at 7 p.m. admission free, plus an Indian Education princess and a senior college scholarship. The third, May 1921, is the Haskell spring commencement powwow drawing national dancers and singers.
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Billy Horse
Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Kansas Union
Kansas University
Lawrence
Horse
Little Soldier
Horton
Lawrence Indian Education Program
Haskell Indian Nations University
Coffin Athletic Complex
Haskell
Dredging permit hearing eyed for Victory Land site
U S Army Corps of Engineers plans public input on Victory Land and Gravel Co. dredge permit for a site about six miles upriver from Bowersock Dam near Hamm Quarries. A hearing is set for May 16 at Perry Lecompton High School after about 100 letters of comment, mostly opposed.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Victory Land and Gravel Co
Kansas River
Lawrence
Robert Smith
Victo
Perry-Lecompton High School
Smith
Victory
Topeka
Kansas City
Builders Land
Bowersock Dam
Douglas-Jefferson County
U.S. Highway 24
Hamm Quarries
Penny’s Concrete
Shawnee
Delaware
Corps
Penny
Hearings continued in Lawrence youths pipe bomb case
Court hearings for three of four Lawrence youths charged with attempting to blow up a Kansas Highway Patrol car with a pipe bomb were extended. Tavin and Stacy McManness, both 17 and 16, had hearings moved to April 26. Jeffrey Campbell, 17, has an April 21 adult-prosecution motion date. Reusch's appearance is set for April 28. The Feb 15 blast occurred at a trooper’s home in southeast Lawrence, damaging the house.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Tavin M. McManness
Stacy T. McManness
Harper
Jeffrey A. Campbell
East 1250
Stacy McManness
Douglas County District Court
Campbell
Tavin McManness
James Reusch
Reusch
State Board hears positive praise for QPA at last
El Dorado and Hesston school districts report four years into the controversial quality performance accreditation system that it is working and improving student outcomes. The board plans June modifications mainly to paperwork and testing, not scrapping QPA, as officials cite better data and education results.
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Topeka
State Board of Education
el Dorado
Hesston
Bill Musick
Minneapolis
Lee Droegemueller
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Lawrence Area
Jack Carson
DeSoto
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Chile
Origit
Mark Medoff
LHS Theatre Department
Center Theatre Group
Mark Taper
Imanual Azenberg
Shubert
Dasha Epstein
Laird Noller
Angeles
Riviera
Monaco
Ovation
Kopp's
Iowa
Headen Treasures
Thrift Store
Massachusetts
H Stan
Novus
Keith Worthington
MT. Oread Medical Arts Centre
Marr & Lawrence
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