Garden plots open for area residents in Lawrence
Lawrence residents may apply for 35 garden plots through the Lawrence Community Garden Project. Twenty plots at 921 Miss and fifteen behind the Lawrence Indian Center at 1423 Haskell offer 100-square-foot soil parcels with tools seeds and education for a nominal fee. Applications due March 15 with planting to begin in April.
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Lawrence Community Garden Project
Miss
Community Mercantile Coop
Lawrence Indian Center
Haskell
Narantine
Dave Loewenstein
Community Mercantile
Lawrence Public Library
Indian Center
Engineering Expo Attracts About 385 Students
KU hosts annual Engineering Expo inviting about 385 high school students for a weekend of competitions and exhibits. The event includes a 9:30 a.m. Friday keynote by Burns & Mponte CEO Dave G Ruf Jr at Lied Center, luego design challenges at Learned Hall and demonstrations by KU engineering students, free and open to the public. The Society of Women Engineers will meet about 150 high school girls to promote engineering careers.
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Kansas University
KU School of Engineering
Society of ‘Women Engineers
Dave G. Ruf Jr
Burns & Meponte Engineering Co. Inc
Kansas City
Columbia quiet on hospital specifics
Columbia/HCA indicates a possible Lawrence hospital but offers few specifics. CEO David Nevill says timing size and exact location remain undecided as consultants study where to place an acute care facility while LMH questions if a second hospital can survive in Lawrence.
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Columbia/HCA. Healthcare Corp
Lawrence
Columbia
David Nevill
Nashville, Tenn
LMH
Nevill
Oread
Janice Early
Weas
KU Medical Center names Karen Miller new nursing dean
Karen Miller, 46, will become KU Medical Center's nursing dean starting June 1 in Kansas City Kansas. The Golden, Colorado resident has led nursing at Children’s Hospital in Denver since 1992 and previously served as associate professor at University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Miller held a NIH funded study on child pain and became an American Academy of Nursing fellow in 1995. The KU search followed Eleanor Sullivan’s 1995 resignation to teach at University of Mis soi St. Louis, with Sullivan possibly returning in July.
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Children’s Hospital
Denver
Kansas University
Karen Miller
KU Medical Center
Kansas City
Kan
Rita Clifford
Eleanor Sullivan
University of Missoe
Center
Miller
National Institutes of Health
American Academy of Nursing
Don Hagen
KUMC
Cu’s
Health Sciences Center
the Center
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland
Police positions draw 350 applicants in Lawrence
A pool of 350 applicants, including 118 Lawrence residents, met Friday’s deadline for seven Lawrence police officer jobs. Lt. Kevin Harmon said the department aimed to select seven suitable recruits from the pool. Applications came from 20 states with 311 men and 35 women. racial breakdown includes 267 white, 14 black, nine Hispanic, two Asian and 18 American Indians. A standardized test will be held March 2, and the 20 week recruit academy starts September 3.
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Lawrence
Karen Bryan
Kevin Harmon
Department
Harmon
Kaw Sand Co gets five year CUP extension on Kansas River site
River conservationists and a neighbor urged denial of the Kaw Sand Co five year conditional use permit extension for a river site downstream of the Bowersock Dam. Joe Hyde noted the plant and another downstream dredge operations near Mud Creek. Company president David Penny said dredging began after installing an access road, a permit condition.
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Kaw. Sand Co
Joe Hyde
Kaw Sand
Penny Sand’Co
Kans Hyde
David ‘Penny
Jim Chappell
Kansas
Bowersock
Topeka
Skateboarders weigh helmet costs against injuries in Lawrence
Two skateboarders were injured in Lawrence while riding without protective gear. One, Jesse Heckman, 14, faced a major crash near Vermont Street but dismisses gear costs and plans to avoid risky tricks. The other, a 22-year-old, crashed near 14th and Ohio. both treated at LMH and released. DCAS notes two similar accidents in one day. Experts urge helmet and pad use and gradual return to riding. Let It Ride manager Richard Tuttle calls helmets essential but bulky and costly.
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Jesse Heckman
Heckman
Lawrence
Heckmani
Vermont
14Th
Ohio
LMH
Scott Dicker
Douglas County Ambulance Service
DCAS
Dicker
Benjamin Tuttle
Let It Ride
Tuttle
Native Kansan to head KAC executive director named
RANDALL L. ALLEN of western Kansas will serve as the Kansas Association of Counties new executive director, replacing John Torbert. Allen has degrees from Wichita State University and recent AI administration experience in Marshfield Wisconsin. Salary is $66,000 annually. Torbert resigned amid allegations of misusing association funds. the attorney general declined charges citing insufficient board oversight.
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Topeka
Kansas Association of Counties
Randall L. Allen
John Torbert
Allen
Western Kansas
Wichita State University
Marshfield
Wis
Wisconsin
Wichita
Sedgwick County
Torbert
Lawrence
Carla Stovall
KAC
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Frederic Remington
Phillip Thomas
Lecompton
Lecompton Bail Assn
Andrew E. Nachison
JOURNAL+WORLD
Mt. Oread Medical Arts Centre
Clinton Pkwy
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Ew Kumc Nursing
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BBC
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Soon
Don
Lion Mas
Ue Oron
Harley & Style
Marlboro
Winston & Camel
BASIC
Cambridge
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Portifinos
BarbWire
Surgeon General
Iowa
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Weree
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