City commish to visit Hiratsuka Japan for sister city
Megan Gilliland says the Sister Cities Advisory Board will organize a fall delegation to Hiratsuka Japan in celebration of the 20th anniversary. City Commissioner Michael Dever will represent the city and personally pay for his transportation. host families and the Hiratsuka host committee will cover lodging and meals for part of the visit.
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Megan Gilliland
Sister Cities Advisory Board
Lawrence
Hiratsuka
Japan
Michael Dever
Dever
Checkers Food Store Question at 23rd and Louisiana
A brief note records an inquiry made at Checkers Food Store located at the intersection of 23rd Street and Louisiana Avenue. The exact question or its outcome is not provided in the accessible text.
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Checkers Food Store
Karen Helm’s Linwood chili request with cheese and onions
Karen Helm a Linwood housewife requests a medium hot chili with cheese and onions and suggests adding a chili dog as an accompaniment. The item reads like a simple recipe preference or diner order embedded in a casual note.
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Karen Helm
Octoginta 41st ride widens from club to regional cycling event
Lawrence Bicycle Club stages its 41st Octoginta three day ride drawing hundreds from the Midwest. The noncompetitive event routes 80 miles through northeast Kansas with a 40 mile option, breakfast and lunch stops, new course toward De Soto Vinland, and police escorted road time. Registration, times, and activities include a Saturday 6.2 mile time trial and a Sunday 80 mile ride at South Park with a Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop breakfast stop.
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South Park Gazebo
Midwest
Lawrence Bicycle Club
Kansas
Douglas County
Octoginta
Randy Breeden
Breeden
de Soto
Vinland
Kansas Department of Transportation
North Road
Lawrence
South Park
Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop
Health care overhaul repeal debate fuels district contest
Yoder seeks rolling back nondefense spending to 2008 levels and permanent Bush tax cuts, while Moore favors current policy with tweaks. Moore backs extending and making permanent the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent, temporary for top 2 percent, and argues cuts would hit federal education and student loans. Yoder reports a $730,000 fundraising quarter as Moore’s numbers remain unreported.
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Yoder
Congress
Moore
Trict
New wing honors Kansas National Guard history at Forbes Field
History buffs invited to mark the opening of a Forbes Field wing dedicated to the 35th Infantry Division with displays, an education center, and a research library. The division based at Fort Leavenworth earned three WWI, five WWII battle streamers and served in Bosnia and Kosovo. Saturday events to be held at the museum south of Topeka.
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Topeka
Kansas National Guard
Museum of the
Forbes Field
35Th Infantry Division
Fort Leavenworth
Bosnia
Kosovo
Poll prompts traveler worry and ESU program vote
Today's poll asks if a terrorist threat would deter travel abroad. It notes 81 percent say yes to Emporia State teaching at Johnson County Community College with 14 percent no and 4 percent unsure. Readers are invited to vote at LJWorld.com.
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Emporia State
Johnson County Community College
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