Vets team up to aid Douglas County shelter effort
Douglas County veterinarians join National Pet Week in a program where each feline leukemia exam and canine heart worm exam by the county clinics earns $5 for the Lawrence Humane Society. The funds fund $25 spay or neuter discounts, aiming to cut shelter euthanizations.
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Douglas County
Lawrence Humane Society
Humane Society
Animal Shelter
Douglas County Veterinary Medical Assa
Paul Grosdidier
Eudora Animal Clinic
Grosdidier
County to hear phone enhancement plan
Douglas County Commission to consider implementing the Audix system at courthouse offices to improve call handling with voice mail and electronic bulletin boards. The plan aims to reduce operator workload amid about 28 000 monthly calls, with 30 percent redirected. Price quoted at 57 812 dollars.
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Douglas County
Douglas County Commission
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Chris McKenzie
McKenzie
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Massachusetts
Peru health workers plan nation wide one day strike
Health workers demand higher wages from an average of sixty dollars a month to three hundred eighty. Officials warn a walkout of cholera wards and ERs could cause deaths as Peru fights a cholera epidemic with 173 thousand plus cases and over one thousand deaths since January. Government plans to staff hospitals with police and military clinic personnel.
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Peru
Lima
Victor Miranda
Victor Yamamoto
Health Ministry
Pacific
Land trades eyed to protect northern spotted owl habitat
SEATTLE AP reports timber industry leaders say new federal restrictions to shield the northern spotted owl could prompt land exchanges between the government and private owners. Weyerhaeuser executive vice president Charles Bingham warns sales or exchanges of holdings may occur if regulations are too onerous. FWS notes about 3,000 owl pairs remain.
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Seattle
Charles Bingham
Weyerhaeuser Co
Fish and Wildlife Service
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