Lawrence events and meetings schedule highlights
A local Friday to Saturday listings card shows the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department immunization clinic at 200 Maine and Baldwin church, a zoning appeals meeting at City Hall, a Young Adult Zone tutoring night at the library, and a Vietnam Veterans meeting with guest Jan Mauck. Also notes a cultural rights lecture by Michael Walzer at Kansas Union. Saturday features the Sixth-annual Herb Market, Neighborhood Cleanup, and Spring Parade of Homes with contact numbers for LHBA.
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Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department
Maine
Lawrence
Vietnam Veterans of America
Jan Mauck
B. Ransom Memorial Hospital
Main St
Ottawa
Michael Walzer
Princeton University
Alderson Auditorium
Kansas Union
Douglas County Health Department
Baldwin First United Methodist Church
Eighth St
Bert Bar-B-Que
Carroll
Fifth Ave
Leavenworth
East Lawrence
Hobbs Park
10Th
Delaware Streets
Lawrence Home Builders Assn
LHBA
Datebook submission contact details
To submit items for consideration in Datebook call 832-6397 or write to Datebook P O Box 888 Lawrence 66044 Datebook email is datebook ljworld com
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Datebook
Lawrence
Ljworld.com
Lawrence police report burglaries and thefts April case
A 1990 Mercedes 500 SL was stolen between April 5 and 10 from West 31st Street, valued at $15,000. A 33-year-old man was arrested at SuperTarget, suspected of taking multiple Nintendo GameCube systems. An IBM laptop, two cell phones, and a purse were stolen from a Alabama Street apartment, totaling $2,150. Emergency calls list numerous medical and fire responses across Lawrence and Eudora. The Journal-World notes it reports only select police items and with protections for victims and arrestees before charges.
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Grandview
Lawrence
West 31St Street
SuperTarget
Iowa
IBM
Alabama Street
Births in Lawrence Twins and a Boy Reported
Mr and Mrs Craig Harmon Lawrence welcome a boy born Tuesday Abtesam and Enamul Khan Lawrence announce twin boys born Tuesday Two families celebrate new arrivals in Lawrence with the births reported locally
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Craig Harmon
Lawrence
Abtesam
Enamul Khan
Corrections Policy at The Journal World
The Journal-World states it corrects significant errors brought to editors. Readers are invited to call 785 832 7154 or email news ljworld.com with any errors for prompt attention.
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Journal-World
Ljworld.com
Call City
Mike Shields
News
County approves rural driving safety campaign and freeway plan
Douglas County commissioners allocate up to 1740 for an advertising and education drive to curb crashes involving farm equipment during planting and harvest. The plan, funded by donations with county cover for shortfalls, targets posters in county offices and rural hubs. They also set May 15 for public input on a new freeway route along US 59 between Lawrence and Ottawa and proclaimed May as Bicycle Safety Month.
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Douglas County
Keith Browning
Browning
Bob Johnson
Lawrence
Ottawa
Lawrence professor faces theft and computer crime charges
Lawrence resident Alexei V. Nikitin a Baker University professor is charged in Douglas County District Court with theft and computer crime over alleged April 2000 theft of source code from Flint Hills Scientific LLC where he worked while at KU He had his first appearance Tuesday and a preliminary hearing is set for May 13 at 2 p m Also a burglary at Game X 800 W 23rd St saw a safe missing about 1300 police seek tips from the anonymous Crime Stoppers line 843 TIPS.
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Baker University
Lawrence
Alexei V. Nikitin
Douglas County District Court
Flint Hills Scientific LLC
Nikitin
Kansas University
Flint Hills
23Rd St
Habitat bake sale and house project raise funds in Lawrence
A group of Lawrence men host a bake sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in front of the U S Bank at Ninth and Massachusetts to fund Habitat for Humanity. Attendees include City Commissioner Marty Kennedy and state and local figures. Meanwhile a women’s group plans to begin building a Habitat house on Mother's Day May 11 with leaders like Judge Deanell Tacha Mayor Sue Hack and lawmakers. The KU Museum of Anthropology has won a $5,000 Kansas Humanities Council grant for an exhibit on prehistoric fires and social gathering spaces, running December through August 2003.
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Habitat For Humanity
Lawrence
U.S. Bank
Ninth and
Massachusetts
Habitat
Marty Kennedy
Tom Sloan
Mike Wildgen
Rick Trapp
Mike Rundle
John Hacl
Ron Olin
Lawrence School
Randy Weseman
U.S. Court of Appeals
Deanell Tacha
Sue Hack
Sandy Praeger
Barbara Ballard
Kansas University
Museum of Anthropology
The
Kansas Humanities Council
Mary Adair
Contact Usy Local Newsroom Contact Details and Staff
A compendium of newsroom contact numbers addresses and staff roles for the Lawrence Journal-World including City Editor Mike Shields News Editor John Taylor Online Editor Dave Toplikar Sports Editor Chuck Woodling Features Arts Editor Jan Biles Entertainment Editor Jon Niccum Business Editor Chad Lawhorn and Circulation details with redelivery guarantees.
KU Student Leaders and Asian American Pioneers
In 1991 Darren Fulcher was ousted as KU student body president and Alan Lowden, identified as Asian American, became president. Jonathan Ng, elected for next year, is thought to be the first Asian American elected to the post. University officials say it's impossible to confirm definitively.
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Darren Fulcher
Kansas University
Alan Lowden
David Ambler
Jonathan Ng
Lowden
Student Senate
Ambler
On the Street: Lawrence District Split Opinions
In Lawrence Public Library public poll respondents give mixed views on dividing Lawrence into two congressional districts. Justin Piland cites conflicts of interest with city buildings, Carolyn Warner prefers keeping the area whole, Michelle Buchanan worries about business disruption amid growth, and Mary Thompson supports greater representation and political diversity.
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Justin Piland
Lawrence
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