Lawrence residents choose Best in Lawrence for year
In Sunday’s Journal World readers select Lawrence’s best in services, businesses and sites. The annual Best in Lawrence award highlights favored local offerings as voted by residents.
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1998
Page
1
In Sunday’s Journal World readers select Lawrence’s best in services, businesses and sites. The annual Best in Lawrence award highlights favored local offerings as voted by residents.
A compact guide references Ann Landers editorials and the Ientertained segment as part of a features page. The item notes horoscopes and hospital sections alongside reader questions and practical advice pieces in a period-appropriate newspaper layout.
Lawrence city commissioners review a $9.5 million preliminary plan for an indoor aquatic center attached to Free State High School. The design includes a 50 meter competitive pool a family pool and a water slide. School board members will see the proposal Monday while the city weighs keeping the center on school land with a shared wall to the high school.
Kansas to reap 1.5 billion from its share of a 206 billion national tobacco settlement. Attorney General Carla Stovall said payments could begin within months. Gov. Bill Graves and lawmakers approved but health groups urged careful spending to prevent youth smoking, calling for followup actions and federal help.
Sam Cash, ethics adviser to Kenneth Starr and Watergate veteran, resigned claiming Starr unlawfully intruded on House impeachment proceedings by acting as an advocate for his report against President Clinton. Dash accused Starr of violating the independent counsel statute and overstepping authority. Democrats seized on the move as House impeachment leverage. Hyde defended the independent counsel's role.
Tamara Maldonado 25 of Marina received six months in jail and five years probation after pleading guilty to four counts of burglary. Police found 206 Beanie Babies at her home and she admitted using stolen credit card numbers to buy about eight thousand dollars in rare Beanie Babies while addicted to the toys. Her ex husband reported threats over discarded card slips.
Public relations executive Julian Read recalls scribbled pages from Kennedy's 1963 Texas visit. The notes, penned after Kennedy and Connally were wounded, recount Nellie Connally asking about details and Read coordinating press coverage from Parkland Hospital. The rediscovered papers feel like a time capsule, bringing back the moments after the shooting.
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