Journal World reporters win Heart of America awards in KC
Journal World chief photographer Mike Yoder took second in photojournalism feature for a portrait of Ray Alumbaugh with Audrey England at Assisted Health Care. City Hall reporter Joel Mathis earned third in deadline news for his piece on a Lawrence grandfather’s attempted bank hold up at the downtown Firstar Bank branch.
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Heart of America
Kansas City Press Club
Society of Professional Journalists
Kansas City
Mike Yoder
Joel Mathis
Yoder
Ray Alumbaugh
Audrey England
Mathis
Deadline News
Lawrence
Firstar Bank
Vehicle Accident Rollover Hospitalizes Two In Ottawa Area
Two Olathe men remained hospitalized after a one vehicle rollover Friday near Ottawa. Shannon Crowley, driving a 1992 Jeep, was seriously but stably hurt along I 35 near the Franklin Miami County line after losing control and rolling three times. Melvin Lickteig, not belted, was ejected and remained in stable condition at Overland Park Regional Medical Center.
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Melvin D. Lickteig
Overland Park Regional Medical Center
Shannon M. Crowley
Olathe Medical Center
Kansas Highway Patrol
Crowley
Interstate 35
Franklin- Miami County
Highway Patrol
Licktelg
Steam Locomotive Challenger Excursion Passes Through Town
The Great Overland Station in Topeka offers a steam locomotive Challenger excursion this Saturday. Passengers ride from Kansas City to board the train, which travels through Edwardsville Bonner Springs Lawrence Williamstown Perry and Grantville before reaching Topeka at 11 30 a.m. Coach seats 125 home seating 200 include train upkeep donations. Tickets via station office call 785 232 5533 or www greatoverlandstation com.
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United Way expands Wallace Galluzzi Volunteer Award
United Way of Douglas County to extend the Wallace Galluzzi Volunteer Award from 30 to 100 agencies. Board says the honor, created in 1985, recognizes volunteers for United Way member agencies. Nomination forms available via the Roger Hill Volunteer Center at 865-5030 or rhycixks.com.
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Wallace Galluzzi
Roger Hill
Gasoline price found at CHIPS in Lawrence
The Journal-World reports a gasoline price as low as 1.399 a gallon at CHIPS, 2220 Harper Street in Lawrence. Readers are urged to report lower prices with business name, address, and price, via phone or the Pump Patrol message board online.
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Census Snapshot Highlights Stable Kansas Families
Ozawkie residents like Robert Miller and family illustrate a traditional household pattern with 77 percent of local households in 2000 having married couples. The piece notes Ozawkie’s 552 residents and west Lake Perry location as factors drawing families while census data show rising unmarried partnerships nationwide.
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Robert Miller
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Ozankie
Lake Perry
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Kansas student wins national History Day medal at Nationals
Katy Kline, 14, of West Junior High, earned first in Kansas and sixth nationally with an exhibit on Walt Disney and WWII animation at the National History Day contest in Maryland. She traveled 1,100 miles with her father after district and state success, aided by a gifted program project that sharpened her research and connections. Lawrence High students Nicholas Hirschey and Jennifer Donnally were national finalists with projects on Bismarck’s Germany and the suffrage movement.
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Journal-World Photo
Katy Kline
Walt Disney
Kansas
Katie
Larry
University of Maryland
Katy
West
Maryland
Disney
WJHS
Leigh Geis
Lois Herr
Lawrence High School
Nicholas Hirschey
Jennifer Donnally
Hirschey
Bismarck
Germany
Donnally
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
Helen Kline
KU First aims to raise 500 million for KU campaign
Kansas University officials near announcing the largest fund-raising drive in school history. The KU First Investing in Excellence campaign seeks 500 million, nearly doubling the prior effort. Endowment holdings exceed 1 billion, with 18 member steering committee guiding gifts during the quiet phase ahead of a Sept. 7 public launch.
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Kansas University
KU Endowment Association
Robert Hemenway
John Scarffe
Association
Forrest Hoglund
Capital Campaign
Ottawa exhibit honors Russian-German settlers in Kansas
The article recalls Russian-German descendants in Douglas, Franklin and Anderson counties, led by Henry Flory and Arley Flory. It notes their German roots, Mennonite and Amish ties, and the 19th century migration with seven wagons from Indiana. They shaped Kansas farming and introduced Turkey Red wheat.
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Franklin
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Hagerstown
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Arley
Lawrence
Henry
Russia
Germany
Douglas-Franklin
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