Lawrence district allows calculator use in all grades
Gladys Sanders says calculators are available to students in all grades and students are still expected to memorize basic facts. The city transportation coordinator role is held by Cliff Blair, now executive director of Douglas County Area Transportation, coordinating services for DCAT, Douglas County Senior Services, Independence Inc., and the city of Lawrence. Sewer charges rose due to a water treatment plant expansion funded by a capital improvement program. rates increased about 16 percent and will stay for three more years amid costs over $100 million. Firefighters seek a salary of 46 265, comparable to LMH RN salaries ranging from 14.45 to 21.69 per hour, equating to about 30 056 to 45 115 annually.
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Cliff Blair
Douglas County Area Transportation
Blair
Douglas County Senior Services
Independence Inc
DCAT
Ed Mullins
Mullins
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
LMH
Janice Early-Weas
Call Sound Off line for Journal-World questions
Readers are invited to call the Journal-World Access line at 865-5000 and enter category 7478 to hear a recording that prompts listeners to leave their question. The message guides callers to provide inquiries via the dedicated line.
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Feed Your Face dinner supports Jubilee Cafe effort
The KU Hillel Foundation Canterbury House and KU Center for Community Outreach host a Feed Your Face spaghetti dinner 6 to 8 PM Saturday at the Lawrence Jewish Community Center 917 Highland Drive. Proceeds aid Jubilee Cafe which serves free breakfasts to 50 to 70 homeless and low income people weekly. Tickets cost 5 dollars for community members and 3 dollars for students and children. Local guitarist Jeremy Bauer performs. Also, the Lawrence River City Lions host a membership recruitment breakfast at 8 AM Saturday at Country Kitchen 1511 W 23rd with Rich Wenselt of a new community radio station as speaker joining outreach efforts.
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Lawrence Jewish Community Center
Highland Drive
Jeremy Bauer
Jubilee Cafe
Lawrence River City Lions
Country Kitchen
Rich Wenselt
Lions
School of Engineering honors two KU alums
Two Kansas University alumni received School of Engineering distinguished service awards at a banquet at Adams Alumni Center. Paul Barber of Prairie Village retired from the U S Army Corps of Engineers after 35 years, and Leo LeSage of Naperville Illinois a 1957 KU engineering physics graduate and Argonne National Laboratory research program director, has spent over 30 years in nuclear technology research.
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School of Engineering
Paul Barber
Prairie Village
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Leo LeSage
Naperville
Argonne National Laboratory
Adams Alumni Center
Corps of Engineers
LeSage
Argonne
KU professor wins $180,000 Searle Scholar grant
Kansas University assistant professor Robert Dunn was named a 1997 Searle Scholar, one of 15 honored this year. The award provides a $180,000 research grant funded by the Chicago Community Trust from John estates. Dunn has been at KU for two years.
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Kansas University
Searle
Robert Dunn
Chicago Community Trust
John
Searle Scholars Fund Supports Dunn Research at KU
Lawrence brief notes G and Frances C Searle grants for medicine chemistry and biological sciences research. Dunn's work covers optical techniques for bioanalytical and biophysical problems. Dunn joined KU in 1995 after a 1992 PhD at UCSD and postdocs at Pacific Northwest Laboratory.
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Dunn
Pacific Northwest Laboratory
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Wash
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Lawrence City Events and Community Schedule
Datebook notes a goals setting session at Union Pacific Depot noon to 3 pm with the Lawrence City Commission. It lists a 34th annual swap meet at Douglas County 4-H Fairgrounds Saturday 6:30 am to 5 pm and Sunday 7 am to 2 pm, plus events at Lawrence Public Library and Haskell Indian Nations University powwow grounds with a rain site at Coffin Sports Complex. Other items include art in the park at South Park, Hamilton Clarinet Quartet, and county health and immunization clinics.
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Union Pacific Depot
Douglas County
Paretsky Children’s Room
Lawrence Public Library
Lawrence Indian Education Program
Haskell Indian Nations University
Coffin Sports
Haskell
Fairgrounds
Art In the Park
South Park
Hamilton
Kansas University weighs exclusive campus drink contract
On campus the question drives debate as Kansas University weighs an exclusive soft drink contract. Readers weigh Pepsi or Coke, with student voices and campus officials weighing the merits and costs of the possible deal.
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Kansas University
Burglary and theft reports flood Lawrence police logs
Police reports detail two vehicle break ins in the 2300 block of Iowa and the 3600 block of West on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, with losses totaling 1050 and 5000 dollars. A separate theft from a 1300 block Ohio vehicle included a 1989 Caprice with a Kenwood stereo valuables estimated at 7155 dollars.
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At&t
West As Lawrence
Thursay
Ohio
Tennessee
White House
East Lawrence
Samuel Brien
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Brien
Iowa Street
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