Lawrence Datebook highlights budget, health, and cultural events
Lawrence Datebook lists a busy schedule including Douglas County Commission budget session at the County Courthouse, health department screenings for seniors at multiple locations, immunization clinics, and a busy lineup of meetings, markets, and cultural programs through Thursday to Monday. Notable items include Big Brothers Big Sisters informational meetings, a restoration advisory board session, and a Lawrence City Band concert at South Park.
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Douglas County Commission
Mass
Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department
Lecompton United Methodist Church
Elmore St
Maine
Vermont Street
Big Brothers
Big Sisters of
Douglas County
Eighth St
Lawrence
Lawrence- Douglas County Health Department
Babcock Place
Betty Baron
Kansas University
Sherri Milsap
Lawrence Senior Center
Big Brothers Big Sisters of
E. Eighth St
Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant
Clearview City
Main
Apple User
Free State Brewing Co
Lawrence City
Farmers Market
NAACP
St. Luke A.M.E
Ninth and
New York Streets
First Unit
Billy Wilder
Lawrence Public Library
Astronomy Associates of Lawrence
Eudora
Eudora City Hall
Seventh St
Fire and alarm calls logged by Lawrence Douglas fire officials
Lawrence Douglas County Fire & Medical listed recent calls including outside trash bin fires at 2711 Kensington Road and 2000 Heatherwood Drive, outside fires at 936 NY and 1603 W 15th St, alarm system malfunctions at 3104 Haskell Ave twice, a fire call canceled at 1319 E 900 Road, and a 4:05 p.m. Sunday entry at 3104 Haskell Ave.
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Lawrence Douglas County
Kensington Road
Haskell Ave
E. 900
Road
Heatherwood Drive
15Th St
Hospital Births Include Two New Babies This Sunday
Mark and Emily Markoulatos of Lawrence welcomed a girl this Sunday. Kelly and Andy Driscoll of Lawrence announced a boy born Sunday. Heather and John Buckman of Lawrence also welcomed a child this past weekend.
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Mark
Emily Markoulatos
Lawrence
Kelly
Andy Driscoll
Heather
John Buckman
Corrections: Berkowitz Age Stated Incorrectly in Sun Arts
The Sun’s Arts and Living section corrects the age of Lawrence resident David Berkowitz. He is 62, not the previously reported figure, prompting a clarification of his birth year and personal details.
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Lawrence
David Berkowitz
Arts & Living
Journal Word Office Contacts and Editor Credits
The notice lists contact numbers and emails for departments at Journal-World including News City Sports Living and Entertainment. It provides hours for subscriber service and redelivery, editor names and direct lines for local and outside Lawrence bureaus, and links to the website and feedback form. It also includes advertising and circulation contacts and partner affiliates 6News Sunflower Broadband and World Online.
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Call City
Mike Shields
Ljworld.com
Sunflower Broadband Board Agenda Highlights Noon Wednesday
The Sunflower Broadband Board will meet at noon Wednesday at 110 McDonald Drive to discuss student lunch prices, among other agenda items. The session on pricing aims to set or adjust meals costs for students.
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McDonald Drive
Sunflower
OC School Board Considers Three Meal Price Increase Options
The OC School Board weighs three options to raise the student meal plan. Option one adds five cents to lunch, making elementary meals $1.70 and secondary meals $1.95. Option two sets elementary at $1.75 and secondary at $1.95. Option three proposes a ten cent rise for both groups, yielding $1.75 for elementary and $2 for secondary.
School meals rise as costs bite district service
Paula Murrish, director of food services, notes meals for students have risen five to ten cents in five years. She writes the department is self-supporting and funded without tax dollars. The memo cites a $116,000 increase in food costs over the past year and calls rising costs a challenge.
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Paula Murrish
Food Service Department
Murrish
School Board Officers 2004-05 Organization and Budget Actions
The board elects a president and vice president and appoints a clerk, treasurer, deputy clerk, and deputy treasurer. It adopts the 2004-2005 meeting calendar, forms committees, designates an official newspaper and media, and names representatives for federal programs, attendance, KPERS, and FOIA. The district considers enrollment fees, building use fees, milk bids, reimbursements, bank signers, and a 1,116-hour school plan. It reviews depositories and a government relations network appointee.
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Kansas Public Employees Retirement System
Freedom of Information Officer
Kansas Association of School Boards
Governmental Relations Network
Regents approve CEO raises amid 24 percent year rise
Reader questions why Chancellor Hemenway gains another raise after a 24 percent increase last year. State salary up 1.5 percent for 2003 04, but a $50 000 private gift increases pay to about 281 619 overall. Board approval sets state component at 231 619 with private funds lifting total to ~281 619.
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Journal-World
Lawrence & State
Hemenway
Charley Oswald
Edina
Minn
Board of Regents
On the Street by Jared Soares interview fragment
Massachusetts Street resident Robert Bishop, a Kansas City copywriter, comments on healthy eating. He says he mostly eats from the burrito and wing groups twice daily and ignores other food groups.
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Robert Bishop
Kansas City
Kan
Disturbance Barricade Near Lawrence. Hostage Not Believed
Sheriff’s deputies surrounded a north Lawrence house after a domestic disturbance and a barricade. No hostages were believed inside. negotiators talked with the occupant late Monday. Nearby roads were closed and residents told to stay indoors as Lawrence officers assisted. In Kansas City, KYYS 99.7 FM donated 4350 dollars to a reward fund for missing Lindsey Porter and Samuel Porter, 8 and 6, who vanished June 6 amid parental kidnapping charges against their father Daniel Porter.
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Douglas County
Lawrence
East 1550 Road
Lawrence Municipal Airport
Kathy Tate
Rick Trapp
Kansas City, Mo
Kansas City
Kyys 99
Lindsey
Samuel Porter
Samuel
Daniel Porter
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