Corps extends permit for wetlands fill in SLT project
Douglass County has a one year extension on the U S Army Corps of Engineers permit to fill wetlands as part of the South Lawrence Trafficway. The extension runs to December 1999 and follows prior extensions. A required noise study remains, while plaintiffs warn that the permit and route remain under scrutiny amid ongoing litigation and a still pending supplementary environmental impact statement.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
South Lawrence
Corps
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Hoover
31St Street
Bob Eye
Eye
10Th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Lawrence
Lecompton
Eve
Stan Ross
U.S
Thomas van Bebber
Craig Weinaug
Gambler to share his secrets at Border's Books
Roy Downs, a 74 year old Oska- Joosa gambler known as Kansas, writes Crapshooting Made Simple and Easy. He will demonstrate dice tricks and high probability bets this weekend from noon to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday at Border's Books and Music 700 N.H. Downs will discuss his method from years of Las Vegas trips and thousands of dice rolls. He emphasizes quitting when ahead and when behind, and notes the dice can talk. He can be contacted at 832-7221 or kblackwood jworld.com.
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Heck
Oska- Joosa
Border
N.H
Las Vegas
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Jim Brothers to sculpt for VFW centennial
Lawrence artist Jim Brothers and the Leopold Gallery won a six figure contract to create monumental sculptures for the National Veterans of Foreign Wars to mark its 100th anniversary. The project includes a bronze two-figure sculpture with six bas relief panels for the national headquarters in Kansas City and smaller figures for the Washington DC lobby, with completion targeted for 2001.
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Journal-World Priora Lawrence
Jim Brothers
National Veterans of Foreign Wars
Brothers
Lawrence
Paul Dorrell
Leopold Gallery
Kansas City
Dorrell
VFW
VFEW
Washington, D.C
Leopold
Virginia
City leaders weigh growth impacts on services
Lawrence officials meet with Douglas County and city commissioners to address rising strains on police, fire, and public works as growth outpaces funding. Key talks cover adding police resources, relocating fire stations, and funding a $10 million inter change at 15th Street and the South Lawrence Trafficway.
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George Williams
Lawrence-Douglas County
Marty Kennedy
Ron Olin
Lawrence
Jim McSwain
Lawrence Area Grows 7 Percent To 27.62 Sq Miles
Lawrence expanded by 7 percent in the past year reaching 27.62 square miles, up from 25.78. Growth totaled 1,177 acres across ten areas, nearly all in the southwest. Last year the city added 150 acres, under one square mile.
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Lawrence
Local United Way awards $10,000 venture funds to six agencies
The United Way of Douglas County approved ten thousand dollars in venture funds from the 1997-98 drive for six agencies to support 1999 projects. ECKAN receives a thousand for a vehicle program with LHS students repairing donated cars. Health Care Access gets two thousand seven hundred fifty for a meal-site transport program. Social Service League receives twenty five hundred for home clothing for women returning to work. CASA funds five hundred for foster children journaling. Lawrence Partnership for Children and Youth gets fifteen hundred to print a youth status report card. Boys and Girls Club is awarded six hundred eighty for conflict resolution materials. Funds disperse January 2. ECKAN and Lawrence Partnership are not UW agencies. the rest are.
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Douglas County
United Way Board
East Central Kansas Economic Opportunity Corp
Lawrence High School
LHS
Lawrence Partnership For
Boys and Girls Club
Jo Bryant
ECEAN
Lawrence Partnership For Children and Youth
Construction worker dies after 15 foot fall in Kansas City area
Shawn L. Houk of Belvue died after being flown to Kansas University Medical Center in Kansas City Kansas following a fall of more than 15 feet onto a concrete floor at a new building site on 1845 East 1450 Road. Douglas County deputies cited head neck and back injuries and said he had been in critical condition since the Friday accident before his death around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
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Kan
Shawn L. Houk
Belvue
Kansas University Medical Center
Douglas County Sheriff's Deputies
Houk
East 1450 Rd
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