Public Works director quits Douglas County post
Frank B. Hempen Jr. resigned Monday as Douglas County Public Works director and engineer to take a job in Weld County Colorado. His last day is June 12 after nearly 14 years in Douglas County. The county will likely conduct a national search for a replacement while an interim supervisor is chosen. Weld County advertised for a new public works complex as Hempen departs.
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Frank B. Hempen Jr
Douglas County
Colorado
Hempen
Weld County
Craig Weinaug
Weinaug
Frank
Lawrence
Public Works Department
Deb Gruver
Dgruver
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Marketing students win top prizes at national career convention
Lawrence High School and Free State High School DECA students earned top honors at a national Career Development Conference in Denver competing against entrants from the United States Guam Puerto Rico and Canada. Kyle Beisner and Jeremy Tate from LHS won first in Food Marketing Research with a campaign for Lawrence Hy Vee. Beisner was named Marketing Education’s Student of the Year. Melissa Wong of LHS placed third nationally in General Marketing for a Miller Insurance risk auto campaign. Additional LHS and FSHS participants are listed with names.
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Denver
DECA
Distributive Education Clubs of America
Lawrence High School
Free State High School
United States
Guam
Puerto Rico
Canada
FSHS
LHS
Lawrence
Kyle Beisner
Jeremy Tate
Tising
Beisner
Marketing Education
Melissa Wong
Miller Insurance
Invisible building project blends with downtown tower
Jim Lee leads a crew installing a new equipment building below the Southwestern Bell tower at 706 Vt as part of a 30000 dollar project to add four antennae atop the 152 foot tower. The work aims to make the obsolete microwave structure visually blend with its surroundings for Southwestern Bell Wireless of Lenexa.
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Jim Lee
Lee
Southwestern
Bell Communications
Southwestern Bell Wireless
Lenexa
Tom McGilton
McGilton Construction Co. Inc
Lawrence
McGilton
Wichita
Kansas City
Southwestern Bell
Ted Wilkerson Co
Kan
Southwestern Bell Communications
Paleontologist promises to bury KU in dinosaurs cage
Kansas University paleontologist Larry Martin told a Lawrence Rotary Club that with proper support he could construct a dinosaur hall rivaling major museums. He envisions expanding into Dyche Hall or West Campus, piling dinosaurs in sight of KU's famed collections and a top geology department.
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Kansas University Natural History Museum
Larry Martin
Lawrence
Windy City
Rocky Mountains
Lawrence Rotary Club
Lawrence Helidome
McDonald Dr
Natural History Museum
America
Chicago
Field Museum
Sue
South Dakota
Wyoming
U.S. News & World Report
Martin
National Geographic Magazine
CNN
Nova
Museum
Lippincott Hall
Dyche Hall
Baldwin hires administrator candidate fails to report for first day
William Way Jr of Riverton Utah apparently decided against taking Baldwin city administrator post while en route from Utah. He did not contact officials and left city commissioners in the dark as they prepared for his 8 am May 11 start. Way later told his son he accepted another Utah job in Saratoga Springs. The city may offer the position to the runner up.
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Baldwin
William Way Jr
Riverton
Utah
Way
Bob Bezek
Kansas
Mr. Way
Berek
Krysztof
Joe Salb
Way Way
Bezek
The
Journal-World
William Way III
Saratoga Springs
Utah Lake
Orem
Dren
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Journal
Kate Showalter
Left
Alison Engelmann
Kansas University
Chi Omega
Ekenapaia
Toni Argueta
LaShonda Bell
Marcus Ewing
Tommy Fawcett
Joni Lorenz
Jean Malcolm
Lea Marcum
Marcy McCabe
Dustin Myers
Laura Nitcher
Mikhail Onipchenko
Nancy
Ic Watson
Jwatson
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Tate
Wong
Ku’s
Stan Krysztof
City Hall
Penni Porter
Mike Shields
Mshields
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