Oasis Club potluck lunch hosts spring songs and talks
The Oasis Club at Westminster Presbyterian Church held a March 28 potluck with Rev. Henry Roberts leading praise for spring. Virginia Harrison performed original songs and poems. President Lorraine Max announced the next meeting with Sunny Larson discussing birds and summer plans.
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Oasis Club
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Henry Roberts
Jed
Virginia Harrison
Lorraine Max
Sunny Larson
Emporia State Emporia
Heather Shisler
Ottawa
Emporia State University School of Business
Baker
Baldwin City
Baker University
Pi Kappa Delta
Shreveport
Emily Neufeld
Lyons
Neufeld
Fifth graders travel back in time field trip recap
Fifth graders dressed as era families with jeans flannel shirts and bonnets for a back in time visit. They ate natural foods for lunch and had water to drink. The afternoon included a spelling bee and oral presentations. Altie said all students enjoyed the experience.
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Page
Hower
Altie
Homemakers Show Promotes New Ideas Across 300 Locations
Barrett hosts a Homemakers event featuring Sears appliances and CMA Director Dick Smith as emcee. Attendees can win prizes including onstage dishes. The program, in its 40 plus year history, will showcase Freischmanns Yeast Hershey Chocolate Reynolds Metal and The Pampered Chef across 300 U S locations with Herald staff assisting and distributing gift bags of coupons and brochures.
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Barrett
Sears
CMA
Dick Smith
Homemakers Schools
United States
Freischmann's Yeast
Hershey Chocolate
Reynolds Metal Company
Herald
Ottawa considers grants for low income aid and YMCA program
Ottawa officials heard requests to use community development funds to expand services for more than 30 low to moderate income workers in a nutrition program and many senior citizens. Proposals included paving streets in the northside industrial area benefiting area businesses and a potential YMCA indoor pool program to aid low income residents, with staff to study alignment with CDBG rules.
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Ottawa
Aaron Bien
S. Poplar
Northside
First
North Main
Poplar
Pontiac
Bien
Performance Electric
Steanson Plumbing
Perfection Auto Body
Chucks Auto Parts
Williamson Salvage
Main Street
17Th Street
Vicki Cummiskey
Cummiskey
Paul Howe
Louisiana Road
YMCA
Howe
Robin Lutz
Baldwin
Lutz
Havens Steel
CDBG
Village West
West 15Th Street
John Howe
ORV
Ottawa arts council classes under way at 105 E fifth
Ottawa Community Arts Council offers adult and children classes at the arts council building. Adult sessions include Beginning Wood Carving, Drawing with Colored Pencil, Watercolor Techniques, Oil Painting, and a Raku Workshop with varied tuition and supplies. Children’s Saturday sessions cover Preschool and Elementary Art Experiences with themes across April to June.
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Ottawa Arts Council
Ottawa Community Arts Council
Arts Council
The
Mary Jane Lebeck
Shirley Swayne
Nancy Oakes
Ruth Jansen
Kansas
Weather outlook with scattered storms and cool nights
Tonight mild with partly cloudy skies and a low around 25. Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph. Saturday brings a chance of thunderstorms with highs near 70s and lows in the 40s to 50s. Sunday and Monday show more rain and potential snow in the far northwest, with varied highs and lows across regions. Local Ottawa Water Plant data note today’s high 73 and low 20s to 30s. precipitation 0.00 inches.
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Ottawa
Legislature reconvenes on tax shift bill in Topeka
The legislature gathers for a three day wrapup starting April 26 28 amid debate over a tax shift that would replace a 681.5 million loss in revenue by raising income taxes 18 percent over two years and increasing the sales tax to 6 percent over three years. Gov Graves urged Senate leaders to defer debate and refrain from action.
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Topeka
House
Bill Graves
Senate
Beethoven festival draws artists from across the Midwest
ESU graduate student Anita Mast praises Emporia’s festival while Beattie and Elaine Edwards emphasize its spiritual purpose. A stage of seven pianos will feature 14 pianists in a two day event with regional faculty and travelers from Connecticut to Kansas. Baldwin Piano Co funds the seven grand pianos for weekend performances.
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Beattie
Anita Mast
ESU
Hesston
Emporia
Miller
Midwest
Wichita State University
Marie Miller
Milles
Elaine Edwards
Edwards
Beethoven
Baldwin Piano,Co
Connecticut
Oklahoma
Missouri
Illinois
New York
Kansas
Pie Eaters Return Event at Franklin County Office Annex
Franklin County Historical Society sponsors a Pie Eaters return featuring Tom Averill of KANU public radio fame. The 7 p.m. Saturday event includes dessert and a talk by Averill portraying William Jennings Bryan Oleander. Tickets are $6. call Barker at 242-1232 or contact an FCHS board member.
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Deborah Barker
Franklin County Historical Society
Tom Averill
Kanu Public Radio Fame
Franklin County
Barker
FCHS
Averill
William Jennings Bryan Oleander
Kanu
Oleander
Kan
Here
House backs tax measure under Contract With America plan
The House approved Republican tax-cut legislation 246 to 188, combining a $500 per child credit with business-friendly reductions, sending the bill to the Senate where deficit-conscious lawmakers may push revisions. Speaker Gingrich urged voters to favor less government and more support for families.
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Washington
America
House
Senate
Newt Gingrich
Congress
CINDI'S BACK At Guys & Doile Prom Sculptured Sale
Fragmented local ad lists items such as Prom Sculptured Nall and Pec priced at 26 dollars, recycling info Mon-Fri, a contact at 2086 Main with phone numbers 242-1178 and 242-6014, and school children call collect for events with times 3 18 pm and 10 350 pm.
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Guys & Doile
Nall &Pec
Main
Phowe Friend
Fr. Co
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