Wilderness center draws national notice at Marion Springs
Marion Springs Elementary School’s eight acre environmental center featuring lagoons, native grasses, 17 imported trees and a seed from an oak climbed by Helen Keller won national attention. The National School Boards Assn invited the center to the 1996 Education Excellence Fair in Orlando, Fla.
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Marion Springs
Nature
Wegner
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Helen Keller
Gettysburg
Mount Vernon
Lawrence
Baldwin
Potter
Charlene
Santa Fe
Oregon
Potter and Wegner
Marion Springs Center
Donna Haines
National School Boards Assn
Orlando
Fla
SchoolsStretch Immunization Clinics Target Young Kids
Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department proposes monthly immunization clinics in Lawrence Baldwin and Eudora public schools aimed at children under 2 and also serving school age children and adults. A spring survey showed 79 percent of 761 respondents would use the clinics, with first after-school sessions possible this fall.
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Lawrence-Douglas County
Health Department
Lawrence
Kay Kent
Baldwin
Eudora
Kent
Holcom Park Recreation Center
U.S. Centers For Disease
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Douglas County
Aging council backs 70 unit aging complex in Lawrence
The Douglas County Lawrence Advocacy Council on Aging endorsed a $6.6 million Prairie Commons project on Sixth Street. If tax credits are approved, Hawthorne Ltd would fund 70 below market rental units for seniors aged 55 plus, with rents of 415 for one bedroom and 488 for two, plus a clubhouse and gardens. The site near Wakarusa Drive requires state tax credits, with next month’s decision and a Sept. 15 advocacy push to authorities in Topeka.
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Lawrence
Prairie Commons
Douglas County
Ed Dutton
Sixth Street
Wakarusa Drive
Wint Winter Jr
Harold Washington
Hawthorne Ltd
South Park Recreation Center
Hawthorne
Washington
Topeka
Fort reservist detained as mistaken suspect in crime ring
Fort Leavenworth officials probe a detention of Micah Wells a Kansas City Army Reserve captain and private investment counselor who was mistaken for Nigerian drug lord John Innocent Okayfor Wells was detained for eight hours after a Wyoming County warrant and expired plates triggered police checks a customs poster likeness led to the hold Wells was fingerprinted photographed and later cleared as the print match confirmed he was not Okayfor Maury says the incident exposed racial bias among white officers and sheriff deputies involved.
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Fort Leavenworth
Micah Wells
Kansas City
Army Reserve
Wells
Wyandotte County
U.S. Customs Service
Jim Lewis
U.S
John Innocent Okayfor
Okayfor
Leavenworth County
Rick Hadel
Missouri
Sheriff's Department
Customs Service
Lewis
Leavenworth
Services for Sharkey in Oskaloosa and Falls in Lawrence
Funeral services for Bessie M. Sharkey, 89, of Oskaloosa, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Presbyterian Church with burial in Pleasant View Cemetery. She died August 16, 1995, in Winchester. Survivors include son James of Lawrence, sister Myra Wellman of Lawrence, and brother Charles Rogers of Kansas City. Graveside services for Paul A. Falls, 78, Lawrence, arrive at 11 a.m. Monday at Leavenworth National Cemetery. He died August 17, 1995, and is survived by wife Susie, sister Alberta Pitcher, and brother Jacob B. of Kansas City. Friends may call at Barnett Funeral Home and Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home respectively.
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Oskaloosa
Bessie M. Sharkey
First United Presbyterian Church
Pleasant View
Sharkey
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital
Winchester
Jefferson County
Edwin
Anna E. Gibson Rogers
Oskaloosa High School
Topeka
Fairview
Lowry
United Presbyterian
Paul A Falls
Lawrence
Leavenworth National Cemetery
Leavenworth
Falls
Douglas County
Jacob 8
Rosetta Moore Falls
U.S
Hercules
Logan-Moore Lumber Co
Kansas University
Susie M. Brockman
Alberta Pitcher
Jacob B
Kansas City
Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home
Subsidized school meals offered in Lawrence districts
Lawrence schools will again offer free or reduced price meals and milk under the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs. To apply, pick up a form at the principal's office. Income guidelines vary by family size. contact the school or district service center at 3705 Clinton Pkwy, 832-5000 for details.
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Lawrence
Clinton Pkwy
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Richard Gwin
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Proto Gus Wegner
Charlene Potter
Aging Council
Fort
Sharkey Services
Paul A. Falls
Chris Hutchens
Farm Bureau Insurance, Insurance
Ibnsurance Company
Wensuiance Company
EB Serces Ins
Rane Alger
Ijworld
Aol
Journal-World
The
Nabi BioMedical Center
W. 24Th St
Laird Noller Ford
Nabi
Midwest
Homer Frank
Lawrence Humane Society
Harley
Orscheins
Orscheln
East 23Rd Stree
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