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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 2004
Page
9
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The VFW hosts a Saturday Easter event north of Ottawa on U.S. 59 with a bake sale and silent auction starting at 1 p.m. The egg hunt for ages toddler to 10 begins at 2 p.m. Indoor and outdoor activities will proceed rain or shine. Franklin County 4-H holds spring horse show at 10 a.m. at the county fairgrounds arena with three or four classes and games.
Local listings show a full slate of meetings today including Wellsville Lodge 356 at Masonic Hall, AARP tax help at Courthouse Square, Chamber Booster Club, Friends of the Ottawa Library, and a public hearing on Public Wholesale Water Supply District 12 at Williamsburg City Hall. Also scheduled are Ottawa City Commission, SkyWarn Weather 101 at Baker University, Eastern Star chapter, Leadership Trustees, PATH exercise group, Kiwanis and Soroptimist meetings, Ottawa Shrine, Fit and Fun Club, Franklin County Child Care Providers, planning commission study session, and more.
The Daily Report lists hospital admissions for Tuesday including John Nickelson Ottawa and Amanda Tipton Williamsburg, and dismissals for John Alterman Ottawa. In Franklin County Jail arrests, Adrian Antonio Woody Hutchinson and Calvin O Neal Taylor Salina were booked on warrants and violations with bonds set. Thaddeus Kingsolver and Treva Ann Lamm Higginbotham released on bonds after burglary and aggravated battery charges. Police arrests include Gina Renee Converse and James Charles Roach on theft and warrants. Randall Alvin Macizewski held on DWI and open container charges.
Franklin County commissioners discussed growing plans by Williamsburg Richmond Ottawa and Wellsville to zone up to three miles outside city limits to regulate development. Ottawa paused three mile work to rewrite its comprehensive plan while others move ahead with revised zoning rules and enforcement requirements. The panel also rezoned 20 acres on John Brown Road into residential estates and altered Prairie Meadows parcels to R3A and RE classifications. Fraleys withdrew a nearly 97 acre light industrial rezoning after neighbors and Wellsville opposed the size. planning officials urged rejection.
Princeton officials advance talks with Ottawa and Marais des Cggnes Water Assurance District to secure independent water rights for a 750000 dollar loan package. If approved the city would join the district, gaining backup river water stored in Pomona and Melvern lakes. The plan includes a 70000 dollar water tower and new lines, with water from Ottawa if rights are obtained.
Amid a dry spring in Graham County farmer Don Paxson welcomes a Legislature funded pilot to shift irrigators off the Ogallala Aquifer toward dryland farming. The plan seeks up to 2 million dollars in federal seed money via the Kansas Conservation Commission, with grants to help landowners idle sprinklers and convert land use while water rights revert to the state.
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