Banner Day as Local Patriots Fly Flags on Flag Day
Lawrence resident Jim Clark and others prepare flags to honor Flag Day marking the 1777 adoption of the Stars and Stripes. World War II veteran Clark hangs his flag annually, while Jim Lewis at Checkers Foods maintains a long daily display since 1987 to thank veterans and celebrate the country. Store managers note flag sales peak around July 4 and Memorial Day.
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Harry Truman
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SuperTarget
Iowa
Ricky Allen
Wal-Mart
James Grau
Journal-Woren
Jim Clark
Lawrence
Vinland Grange Hall Nominated for National Register
The Vinland Grange Hall at Oak and Main streets, built in 1884 with a $400 loan, is being nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places after years of work by the Santa Fe Trail Historical Society. The two story stucco building shows wear but houses historic murals, a green paint layer, shuffleboard marks, and a portrait of the National Grange founder. The hall has served as meeting hall, school, bank, and barber shop, with lower floor housing a farm cooperative store at times.
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Santa Fe Trail Historical Society
Vinland Grange Hall
Grange
Charles Doudna
Oak
Main Streets
Doudna
Historical Society Board
National Grange
Mike Yoper
Journal-World
Vinland Grange Meeting
Vinland Grange No. 163
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Graves' teacher still his adviser
TorrkkA-Gary Sherrer has moved easily among Kansas political and business elites for two decades while recalling his Topeka roots. Now lieutenant governor, he reflects on a hard scrabble upbringing, a college education at Emporia State, and a career starting as a high school speech teacher and debate coach with early posts in Leavenworth and Hutchinson.
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Gary Sherrer
Kansas
Topeka
Sherrer
State Capitol
Statehouse
Highway Department
College Hill
Fountain Crew
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia State University
ESU
Leavenworth
Hutchinson
Salina
Ten years on vanished Kansas City women case remains unresolved
A decade after Joan Butler Theresa Brown and Christine Rusch disappeared in 1989 in the Kansas City area the killer Richard Grissom Jr remains imprisoned for life. Police and prosecutors say bodies have never been found and the case remains their biggest mystery. Detectives continue to pursue leads, believing the victims deserve to be buried.
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el Dorado Correctional Work Facility
Paul Morrison
Johnson County
Grissom
Kansas City
Hinkle
Miss Brown
Miss Busch
Lawrence
Butler
Miss Rusch
Grandview
FBI
Dallas
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Overland Park
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Missouri
California
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Lenexa
Pat Hinkle
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