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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1998
Page
6
Sunflower Cablevision plans to start UniVision by February 1 1999 with a possible January 15 rollout. The new Hispanic channel will appear on analog channel 67 in their lineup.
Instructions direct readers to call the Journal-World Access line at 865-5000, enter category 7478, and leave a question via a recorded prompt. The item is a public guidance note directing reader participation in a call-in feature.
Chapter H7 of PEO will meet for a Friday noon luncheon with Marge Nevius as hostess and Nita Marsh and Sue Hill as assistants. Nevius will present a program on Santas and members will participate in an ornament exchange. In Wellsville the Holidays in Wellsville event runs Saturday with crafts, candies, salsas, birdhouses, jewelry, and more at the high school. Boy Scouts serve chili and pies. student music departments perform. donations for Women’s Transitional Care Services will be collected in Ottawa. Tours run 1 to 5 pm with $5 tickets from the high school. Also reported, the North Lawrence area A.S.A.P. store videotape was not provided to police and allegedly stolen in a robbery. managers claimed the tape showed no crime and had shut off. Police requested the tape again. store manager Sandy Jaynes could not be reached for comment.
Ottawa City Council met in a half hour closed session Monday to consider possible legal action against TCI the cable franchise. No action was taken. TCI had announced a merger with AT&T and agreed to trade the Ottawa franchise for others in Illinois and Indiana without Ottawa officials approval.
Police logged a Sunday theft of a red 1985 Monte Carlo valued at 4200 in the 700 block of Rockledge and a Wednesday burglary in the 700 block of North Seventh with a Thompson .45 and a Springfield .45 totaling 3563. A woman near East 15th reported gunfire with no injuries. Douglas County deputies arrested three men for aggravated battery outside the Judicial Center and Shaun Hickock on another aggravated battery charge. Condition updates list critical and fair statuses for several victims. Emergency calls logged multiple medical and transport events. In district court, Leonard Baker received two years probation for an August 1997 break-in. his cousin Cedric Baker faces about 11 years.
The Journal World notes AP corrections stating Douglas County District Attorney Christine Kenney Tonkovich recommended no sentence beyond restitution of $20,000 for Penni Porter in the embezzlement case. A business page correction fixes a Kansas loan guarantee decline figure: a 3.5 percent drop from fiscal 1997 to 1998.
A series of 60 plus health screenings, story times, and public meetings fill the day at venues in Lawrence and Douglas County. Events include health screens for seniors, library programs, a city commission meeting, a parent forum on school accreditation, a state legislative preview, an elder women's league event, and Eldridge Hotel gingerbread viewing with an auction to follow.
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