Santa's rooftop rescue lights up downtown Lawrence ceremony
Crowds gathered at Ninth and Massachusetts streets as Mayor Dever flipped the holiday lights on. Firefighters used a ladder to rescue Santa from Weaver's Department Store roof, then escorted him down to greet children who queued for photos and cookies. Downtown Lawrence Inc. estimates a turnout of 1,000 to 2,000.
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Lawrence
Michael Dever
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Weaver’s Department Store
Weaver’s
Richard Renner
Bobby Richardson
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Joany
Sally Zogry
Downtown
Lawrence, Inc
Schools show little interest in exemption law
Kansas districts show little uptake on the Coalition of Innovative Districts Act intended to allow exemptions from state regulations. Gov. Brownback’s office notes only three districts filed applications, with a Dec 1 deadline to be considered for designation and potential waivers of collective bargaining rules and tenure protections.
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Kansas
Sam Brownback
Coalition of Innovative Districts
Innovation grant aids Lawrence High PE with tech wearables
Lawrence High School physical education uses chunky digital watches to monitor students heart rates from warm up to cool down, giving a quantitative assessment of each pupil workout. The program, described by PE teacher Amy Hoffsommer, follows a recent innovation grant and points to future GRANTS coverage on page 2A.
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Lawrence High School
Amy Hoffsommer
Hoffsommer
KU students work on WellCar to guard health on the go
Gregory Thomas at Kansas University leads students in two teams to develop an ultramodern WellCar for house calls to immobile rural patients and to embed glucose monitoring for diabetics in a car. The project aims to alert drivers when blood sugar drops and reduce diabetes related crash risk, with industry support from Bayer Healthcare and Sprint.
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Center For Design Research
Thomas
American Diabetes Association
Bayer Healthcare
Sprint
Bob Billings
Kansas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
KU Institute For Policy & Social Research
Inside Business 7 Classified Comics Deaths
Classified section notes include business items and classifieds along with comic strips and death notices. Social media handles for LJWorld appear for Facebook and Twitter updates.
Unique goods at BizBaz Bizarre Bazaar in Lawrence
The Lawrence Arts Center hosts BizBaz Bizarre Bazaar with experimental and unusual goods. The show runs today from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Page 3A.
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Lawrence Arts Center
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