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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1996
Page
4
The 2500 block of Haskell Avenue is overgrown and city officials consider how to implement its own law. Housing director Lynn Goodell said a neighborhood improvement job began Tuesday and should finish today. The item appears amid other unrelated notes.
Readers are instructed to call the Journal-World Access line at 865-5000 and select category 7478 to leave a question. A recording guides callers through the process.
The city council awarded a $308,000 storm sewer contract to Larkin Excavating of Lansing using a federal Community Development Block Grant last year. The project will replace aging sewers in the southern city and some ditches on the north side, with completion targeted by October 1. Mayor Arlene Pritchard noted the chosen contractor will use plastic pipes over concrete.
McLouth residents urge the city council to ban go carts on city streets citing teen reckless driving. The council will have police issue tickets to parents and drivers when observed. A public meeting on June 18 will discuss applying for a Community Development Block Grant to fund street improvements. Commissioners cancelled tonight’s Douglas County meeting but will reconvene at 9 a.m. Monday at the courthouse.
A traveling exhibit of historical photographs titled By a Thousand Artifices The Folk Technology of the Flint Hills has been postponed from June due to damage. The collection, showing photographs from the 1920s through the 1940s, explores evolution of agricultural technology.
A busy Lawrence daybook lists health screening for seniors at Babcock Place, a City Band concert at South Park, Brown Bay Concert at Mercantile Bank Plaza with Billy Spears Band, after school story time at Lawrence Public Library, a Women’s Transitional Care Services volunteer training, and a Lawrence school board meeting at the district service center.
Granada at 1020 Mass hosts an all ages dance party tonight with DJ Roland spinning tunes. The event follows a successful Lawrence High School graduation party and offers no alcohol and no ID requirement. Doors open 8 p.m. for details call The Granada at 838-9999 or 842-1390.
A preliminary hearing for former Lawrence Indian Center director Chet Learned, 39, scheduled to be held for embezzlement charges, has been rescheduled for June 11. Prosecutors accuse him of stealing between 500 and 25,000 dollars from August 1994 to March 1996. Learned, arrested May 25, bonded on recognizance, is a KU-related figure tied to Learned Hall’s namesake.
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