Tonganoxie Days Showcases Music Cars And Quilt Art
Friday and Saturday events include Leavenworth County Barbecue Championship judging at noon Saturday, Miss Tonganoxie Days Pageant at 7 p.m., arts and crafts displays downtown, the Country Cruisers Car Show at VFW Park, a Flag Day ceremony and flyover at noon, a demolition derby at 6 p.m., and shuttle service. Schedule available online at tonganoxiedays.com.
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Leavenworth County Fairgrounds
Leavenworth
VFW
Fairgrounds
Tonganoxiedays.com
Lawrence board seeks reps for construction oversight committee
The Lawrence Board of Education Construction Oversight Committee invites community representatives from each junior high area to monitor bond project work at four junior highs, the two high schools, and Broken Arrow School. Meetings run 10 am to noon biweekly, with the next on June 15 at 110 McDonald Drive.
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Lawrence Board of Education
Broken Arrow
McDonald Drive
Tom Bracciano
Usd
Lawrence
VFW Post 852 Seeks Sports Equipment for Troops Overseas
Lawrence VFW Post 852 and its Auxiliary urge donations of gently used or new sports gear for soldiers abroad. Items include gloves bats balls hats and nets with drop offs daily at the post on Ala between 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday. A full kit costs about 1000 and large donations can be arranged via Operation Slugger.
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Lawrence
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 852
Ala
VFW
VEFW
Operationslugger.org
Army reservist helps write Iraq war history detachment
Staff Sgt. Troy Simpson of Wichita an Army reservist for 15 years joins a military history detachment to document the history of the war in Iraq. The group includes several soldiers contributing to archival records and narrative histories.
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Troy Simpson
Wichita
Iraq
Simpson
Army Reservists in Kansas receive Welcome Home Warrior award
Lawrence based Army Reserve units received a Welcome Home Warrior Citizen Award package at Clinton Lake for eight members of the 824th Quartermaster Detachment who served six months in Iraq from February 2004 to December 2004. The gift bundle included an American flag, a commemorative coin, certificates, a lapel pin set for the soldier and family member, and a Welcome Home flag.
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Richard Gwin
Journal-World Photo
Richard Medved
Lori Arnold
Lawrence
Clinton Lake
Arnold
Pinckney School
Iraq
Col
Greg Meyer
89Th
824Th Quartermaster
Afghanistan
Girls State delegates chart political course in Kansas
High school seniors from across Kansas attend the 63rd American Legion Auxiliary Kansas sunflower Girls State at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. More than 400 girls learn how government works and many follow relatives who previously attended.
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Alpha. Banker
Kansas University
Kansas
Lawrence
American Legion Auxiliary
Kansas Sunflower
Girls State
Margaret Pendleton
Liz Pendleton
Ashley Erne
Coffeyville
Lawrence Juneteenth highlights black high school athletes history
Lawrence celebrates Juneteenth with an oral history panel featuring Leonard H. Monroe recalling his experiences as a black athlete at Liberty Memorial High School during late 1940s segregation. Alice Fowler discusses the local African-American Oral History project as events run through June 18 including tours, a basketball tournament, teen dance, and family festival.
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Leonard H. Monroe
Lawrence Liberty Memorial High School
Monroe
Lawrence
Kansas University
Kansas Union
Alderson Auditorium
Alice
Donna Bell
Janine Colter
Work under way to restore Senate's historic splendor
The Senate chamber is being revamped as part of a $135 million, nine year Statehouse restoration begun in 2001. Architect Vance Kelley says the goal is a modern yet historically faithful chamber, ready for the 2006 session while preserving 19th century character and concealing current technology. The project traces to the building’s 1865 1873 east wing construction.
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Senate
Vance Kelley
Kelley
Statehouse
DL Smith
Senate Chamber
Kansas Statehouse
Topeka
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