Ottawa man pleads guilty to 670000 dollar securities scam
Ottawa man Mark Sigurdson pleaded guilty in Franklin County District Court to one count of theft by deception and six counts of securities fraud relating to a 671 thousand dollar misappropriation from seven victims between 1989 and 1994. The seven victims, many elderly women in Franklin and Douglas Counties, seek restitution totaling hundreds of thousands. Sigurdson faces sentencing on October 30. investigators say funds were diverted for personal use after clients were told investments would be made on their behalf.
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Mark Sigurdson
Magnificent Seven
Sigurdson
Ottawa
Franklin County
Kansas Office of the Securities Commissioner
John Wine Jr
Securities Commissioner
Wine
Franklin
Douglas
Albuquerque
N.M
New Mexico
Lawrence city commission defers 10 new T hangars airport project
Lawrence officials defer a plan from the Aviation Advisory Board to build 10 T-hangars at Lawrence Municipal Airport. The delay centers on funding a water well to boost fire protection, adding about 1,000 to the existing 190,000 project total. Commissioners expect to revisit next Tuesday.
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Lawrence
Cabies
Aviation Advisory Board
Lawrence Municipal
Airort
City defers Woodlawn expansion plan
Lawrence city commissioners defer a site plan for a 4,900 square foot Woodlawn School expansion at 08 Elm. Staff propose eliminating 24 gravel parking spaces to meet standards, while a district rep seeks paving to preserve the parking. The plan will be revisited next Tuesday alongside new site approvals for Broken Arrow and New York schools.
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Woodlawn
Lawrence
Broken Arrow
New York
North Second Street rebuild contract approved in DeSoto
The city will hire D F Freeman Contractors Inc of DeSoto to rebuild North Second Street from Lincoln Street to Industrial Lane at a cost of 2.26 million, including a turn lane into the Tanger Factory Outlet Center, with Tanger reimbursing the city 65 thousand. The Sister Cities Advisory Board gains bylaws to pursue a third sister city, with contacts in France.
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FDA
Lawrence
Bonjour
Sister Cities Advisory Board
Bob Schumm
Schumm
France
Eutin
Germany
Hiratsuka
Japan
KU unveils first 20 year campus master plan draft
Futurists gathered in the Apollo Room to review KU 2025 campus plans a draft 88 page master plan developed by a 28 member task force over more than two years. Ed Meyen warned of past mistakes and the need to protect the campus core as Budig Hall opens in 1996 and Jayhawk Boulevard could be closed to private vehicles to improve safety and traffic. Open forums for faculty staff and students were scheduled in October in Nichols Hall and the Karas Union to discuss the plan ahead of a final 1996 release.
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Kansas University
Richard Nixon
White House
Ed Meyen
Meyen
Jayhawk Boulevard
Tom Waechter
Budig Hall
Hoch Auditorium
Apollo
Nichols Hall
Alderson Auditorium
Karisas Union
McLouth eyes extra water sources district plan
McLouth City Council heard a draft plan from Rural Water District No 12 for using district water to relieve strain on the municipal system. City Superintendent Carl Chalfant cited eight wells and springs and a 50 000 gallon tank short of demand, while an emergency 1990 provision limits regular source use. The council also approved paying half of a Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center course for part time officer Tony Roberts.
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McLouri
McLouth
Carl Chalfant
Chalfant
Tom Burns
Tony Roberts
Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
Perry
Roberts
Obituaries for Mudrick Short Pinzl Ross and Savant Short
Obituaries from Ottawa to Covington report Bessie Mudrick 86 of Ottawa died Sept 18 1995 and services today with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. Survivors include three sons and a sister. Also noted are Helen Short 79 of Covington and Frances Short 79 of Covington with services pending and multiple survivors listed. The notices cover Masked family ties and local memorials.
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Ottawa
Bessie Mudrick
Dengel and Son Mortuary
Lawrence Karol
Rose Hill
Kansas
Mudrick
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Iola
David P
Gertrude R. Kasdin Litwin
Kansas State Teachers College
Emporia
Kansas University
Litwin's Department Store
PTA
Business and Professional Women's Club of
Rotary Arms
Ottawa Historical Preservation Committee
DeMolay Mothers
Franklin County
Jewish Community Center
Lawrence
Elks Duplicate Bridge Club
David $. Mudrick
Cameron
Thomas M. Mudrick
Miami
Okla
Steven N. Mudrick
Topeka
Leon Litwin
Kansas City
Tillie Feldman
Atchison
Ben Martin Peck Animal Shelter
S. Hickory
Leonard M. Short Il
Kan
Allen Savant
Baton Rouge
Helen Louise Pinzl
Independence
Clearfield
Douglas County
Pinzl
Rest Haven Nursing Home
Jewte
Mabel Dwyer Schen
Robert RK. Ping
David Pinzl
Clathe
Debbie Zigler
Winter Park
Fla
Lewis Schendel
Edgerton
Covington
Frances Savant Short
Fielding Funeral Home
National Cemetery
Biloxi
Miss
Plan for health building in limbo
County Commissioner Jim Chappell urged a joint city and county meeting to reassess the health building project. He said agencies must have space that fits needs or budgets should be revised. Davis proposed reducing design estimate to about 32 thousand dollars before further drawings.
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Jim Chappell
Budk
City Commission
County Commission
Chappell
Davis
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Securities Commissioner's Office
Ulla
North
Adel
Ric Anderson
Jou
Wilson and Son Chapel
Wellsville
Wilson and Son Funeral Home
Tola Maude Ross
Sterling
Sterling Presbyterian Manor Chapel
Lyle Dauber
She
Kingsdown
Mark Huber and
Alice Mary Weir Donnel
Baskin-Robbins
Ross
PTL 700 Club
American Party
John Birch Society
Veterans Affairs Hospital
Charles Warren Jr
Arkansas
Tim Ross
Eudora
Douglas Ross
Santa Fe
Brenda Jo Dauber
Street
Linda Ross
Tillie Flanders
Orlando
Theda Boehm
Colorado
Porter and Sillin
Limbo
Nabi BioMedical Center
Bob W
Laird Noster Ford
Mara
Ponacres
Awrence Humane Society
Massachusetts
Quantrill
Barb Vantuyl
Barb
Tipann Motors, Inc
Iowa
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