Chainsaw artist honors Kansas through woodcarved salute
Towanda artist Dave Traylor 54 crafts Celebrate Kansas a 6 foot sunflower and honeybee collage from a tree stump in Hutchinson area. He uses chainsaw art to capture state pride and teaches woodcarving at home while avoiding chainsaw classes due to risk.
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Traylor
Kansas
Hutchinson
Bill Drews
Cessna Aircraft Inc
Wichita
Matt
el Dorado Middle School
Branson
Sylvia
Sylvia Traylor
Graves names 16 to juvenile justice advisory group in Kansas
Gov. Bill Graves named 16 people to a new state Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Programs and appointed David Adkins as chairman. The group includes Attorney General Carla Stovall and Topeka figures, with three younger appointees from Lawrence, Lenexa, and Kansas City Kansas, to meet federal act requirements.
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Topeka
Kan
Bill Graves
David Adkins
Tts
Adkins
Leawood
Kansas Youth Authority
Graves
Carla Stovall
Sue Wine
Brent Anderson
Loraine Gavin-Nwakpuda
Brice Bradshaw
David White
Kansas City
James ‘Burgess
J. ‘Kenneth Hales
Wichita
Karen Griffiths
Norton
Wes Holt
Westmoreland
Ada Ligia Paquette
Junction City
Jerry Wells
Lawrence
Jenny Allen
Andre Hall
Lauri Lynn Paul
Lenexa
Fannie Mae pushes equal housing access and outreach
Fannie Mae leaders at the NCRC conference report a $3 trillion commitment to expand lending to minority and low income borrowers. Through the program, inner city lending rose over 30 percent and loans to low and moderate income buyers grew 46 percent, with 500,000 first time buyers and 450,000 minority families added. The firm notes $255 million for special needs housing and $265 million for Low Income Housing Tax Credit loans, while stressing the need to combat discrimination and broaden rehab loan products. Aimed outreach includes talking to 1.6 million families and partnerships with NBA and immigrant service groups to invite more into homeownership. The company cites a new elderly cash-poor but house-rich product drawing 65,000 inquiries in 72 hours.
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Federal
National Mortgage Association
Fannie Mae
National Community Reinvestment Coalition
NCRC
Jim Johnson
Washington
Johnson
Fannie, Mae
National Basketball Association
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Students battle censorship after paper pulls smoking story
Blue Springs South High School administrators censored a planned investigative piece on minor cigarette purchases, removing the two underage shoppers from the report and deleting names of offending businesses. Editors publish a white-space issue while appealing to the school board, citing First Amendment protections and previewing possible court action.
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Sue Springs
Jaguar Journal
Blue Springs South High School
Mark Goodman
Student Press Law Center
Washington
American Cancer Society
Jeremy Gates
Gates
Cials
Paul Kinder
Dennis ‘Littell
Blue Springs
Goodman
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Paul Hays
W. Tecumseh
Ottawa Farm Bureau Insurance
Curt
Tata Pen
Ing Pene
Curt Inka
Gmall & Lai
J.L
Lee) Hysom
Peoples National Bank & Trust
Perry Burrows
J.W. Dickerson
Emporial University
J.C. Penney Co
Parsons
Dodge City
WaKeeney
Daisy Porter
Worthington Jones Men’s
Penney
United States
Europe
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First United Methodist Church
Whitp Red Org Pai
John Ifenh, Jr
George Mason University
Washington, D.C
BL Hysom
U.S. Air Force
Aurora
Colorado
Peoples National Bank
J.L. Hysom
Richard Jackson
Eckan
Fourth St
Ottawa Recreation Center
Berger & Carmody
Paragon Associates
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