Lawrence Datebook 22 Today Arts and Graduations
Lawrence Arts Center hosts New Works by Steve Dahlberg Joseph Post and Ric Averill at 7 30 p m The Cosmopolitan Diabetes Golf Classic takes place at Alvamar Golf Course Graduation ceremonies at Memorial Stadium Lawrence High School at 1 p m If weather worsens the ceremony moves to LHS gym Kuok Wai Lio piano recital at 2 p m in memory of Bernie Nordling and Marga Harris Free State High School graduation at 4 p m will move to the gym
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Lawrence High School
Memorial Stadium
Kansas University
LHS
Kuok Wai Lio
Lawrence Arts Center
Bernie Nordling
Marga Harris
International Institute For Young Musicians
Kuok Wai
Free State High School
Free State Gym
Lawrence Farmers Market and Eco-Walk Set for Saturday
On Saturday morning the Lawrence Farmers Market runs from a.m. to 11 a.m. in the 800 block of New Hampshire parking lot. An Akin Prairie Eco-Walk from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. is led by Kelly Kindscher of the Kansas Biological Survey. A craft and antique car show takes place noon to 4 p.m. at Leavenworth County Fairgrounds in Tonganoxie. more details at kit.org events.
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Lawrence Farmers Market
New Hampshire
Akin Prairie
Kelly Kindscher
Kansas Biological Survey
Kit.org
Akin
Abdallah Shrine
Leavenworth County Fairgrounds
Tonganoxie
Public events submissions and meeting calendar notice
Community events can be submitted by mail to Datebook at P O Box 888 Lawrence Kansas or by email to datebook email. Ongoing groups are listed in the Meetings and Gatherings calendar in Saturdays Journal World with a noon Wednesday submission deadline and an email address. A full listing of upcoming events is available online at LAWorld dot com slash events.
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Datebook
P.O. Box
Lawrence
Liworld.com
Journal-World
Meetings
World.com
Laworld.com
Two Police Reports Include Battery and School-Aage Injury
A 29-year-old Lawrence man was assaulted near Eighth and Tennessee with a blunt object at about 10 a.m. Wednesday, alcohol involved. In Baldwin City, 7-year-old Danielle Bennett was struck by a vehicle at Flame Way and Firetree Avenue at 6:05 p.m. and flown to Children’s Mercy Hospital. another unrelated crash at Sixth and Ames did not require hospital transport.
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Lawrence
Eighth
Tennessee
Baldwin City
Danielle L. Bennett
Kansas Highway Patrol
Firetree Avenue
Ralph Ybarra
Ybarra
Bennett
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Sixth
Ames
Lawrence births include two sets of newborns this Thursday
Chad Morelet and Rachel Snodgrass announce a boy birth in Lawrence on Thursday. Jeremy and Kimberly Bell welcome a girl in Lawrence on Thursday. Nathan and Megan Atchison also share a birth in Lawrence, details incomplete.
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Chad Morelet
Rachel Snodgrass
Lawrence
Jeremy
Kimberly Bell
Nathan and
Megan Atchison
KU professor Greg Simpson chairs psychology department
A Thursday article wrongly identified Greg Simpson’s department. Simpson is a professor at Kansas University and serves as chairman of the psychology department.
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Greg Simpson
Kansas University
Bond revoked for Lawrence man in Yellow House case
U S Magistrate Judge James P O Hara revoked the bond of Lawrence resident Guy M Neighbors owner of the Yellow House Store 1904 Mass for threatening continued criminal defamation of government counsel and witnesses in an email. Neighbors and his wife Carrie face 19 charges including wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering with trial set for October.
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Lawrence
U.S
James P. O’hara
Guy M. Neighbors
Yellow House
1904
Mass
O’hara
Neighbors
Carrie Neighbors
Guy
Deaths Jeanette Lynn Connell of Tonganoxie Kansas
Funeral services for Jeanette Lynn Connell 54 of Kansas City Kansas will be held at 11 a m Saturday at Quisenberry Funeral Home Tonganoxie Burial will follow at Hubbel Hill Cemetery in Tonganoxie She died Wednesday May 20 2009 at Providence Medical Center in Kansas City Kansas She was born March 26 1955 in Lawrence daughter of Donald and Betty Roles Drake She worked as a vault teller for Security Bank in Kansas City Kansas Survivors include her mother of Tonganoxie a son Dustin Connell of Kansas City Kansas two daughters Donna Hill of Bonner Springs and Dana Connell of Kansas City Kansas two brothers William and Richard Drake both of Tonganoxie and six grandchildren The family will receive friends 10 to 11 a m before services at the funeral home Online condolences may be sent at quisenberrysh com
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Tonganoxie
Jeanette Lynn Connell
Kansas City
Kan
Quisenberry Funeral Home
Hubbel Hill
Ms. Connell
Providence Medical Center
Lawrence
Donald and
Betty Roles Drake
Memorial services planned for Robert J. Renyer in Topeka
Robert J. Renyer 70 of Wakarusa died May 20 2009 at home. Services set for 11 a.m. Saturday at Penwell-Gabel Southeast Chapel Topeka. Survived by wife Dee Lafferty Renyer two daughters Sheila Roberson Shawna Mercer two sons Randy Mark a brother a sister nine grandchildren and a great granddaughter. Memorials suggested to High Banks Midget Hall Of Fame Inc. in Belleville Kansas.
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Topeka
Robert J. Renyer
Wakarusa
Penwell-Gabel Southeast Chapel
Renyer
Louis H
Irene L. Quancy Renyer
Berryton High School
Boeing Co
Wichita
U.S. Army
Santa Fe Railroad
Mr. Renyer
Topeka Auto Racing Boosters
Penwellgabel.com
Janet Riley obituary services pending in Lawrence
Funeral services for Janet Delaine Riley aged 46 of Lawrence are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. Ms Riley died Wednesday May 20 2009 at Kansas University Hospital.
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Janet Delaine Riley
Lawrence
Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home
Ms. Riley
Kansas University Hospital
Kansas City
Kan
Chancellor search nears end at KU says regents official
Kansas regents chair says the search committee for the next KU chancellor is close to finished after brief discussions with candidates. The committee will forward names to regents who will make the final choice. The board also approved capital improvement plans and deferred maintenance funded projects for FY2011 and related funding allocations.
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Kansas University
Reggie Robinson
The
Kansas Board of Regents
Robinson
Regents
Eric King
Kansas man sentenced in Craigslist rape case in Wichita
A Wichita man, David Lee Gage, 51, was sentenced to 29 years in prison after pleading guilty to three counts of rape, two counts of aggravated criminal sodomy, one count of aggravated robbery, and one count of aggravated assault linked to Craigslist erotic services ads. Prosecutors say he used a fake marshal badge to coerce victims, with incidents spanning May to August 2008.
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Kansas City
Wichita
Kan
Craigslist
David Lee Gage
Sedgwick County
Justin Edwards
Gage
Edwards
Quentin Pittman
Nora Foulston
Foulston
Jim Buckmaster
KU asks regents for tuition increase
KU officials urge a tuition rise while regents debate a politically styled deal with minimal campus consultation. Regents split on the plan, review set for June, with only Emporia State proposing a below‑funding level increase and KU forecasting a 3.1 percent revenue rise overall.
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Emporia State University
Theresa Gordzica
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