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This Week in History Apr 8 1991 Ottawa Franklin County
A look back covers April 8 1991 to April 17 1976 with local happenings. For April 8 1991 the Task Force for Operation Homecoming with VFW plans homecoming activities for Franklin County soldiers. Ottawa track records by Mettenburg Duncan Hepner Mavity and Gumm. Other items note a self defense shooting verdict, golf course delays, hall of fame induction, Olympic Trial dreams, a Soviet economic shift talk, and a regional education pilot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Task Force Committee
VFW
Franklin County
Leslie Mettenburg
Amanda Duncan
Wade Hepner
Scott Mavity
Aaron Gumm
Ottawa
Don Duncan
House
Walker Hendrix
Wendell Barker
Charles W
Chuck” Simms
Barker
Denver
Appanoose
Beth Gentry
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame
Gentry
Darren Strickler
U.S
Strickler
Federal Reserve Board
Wayne Angell
Ottawa University
Kawaiis
Soviet Union
Billy Hardwick
Clarice Dengel
Burt Brewer
Lloyd Gladman
Andy Duffle
Pomona
Washington, D.C
Earl Butz
Kansas
Gerald Ford
Duffle
Kansas Farm Bureau
Allen Loyd
Chamber of Commerce
St. Louis
Debbie Vitera
Kansas City
Niagra Falls
N.Y
Cindy Blakeley
Highlights
Cindy
Eisenhower School
Laurence Wightman
McKinney
Texas
Wightman
Bpoe Lodge
S. Robt. McCrea
Ottawa Lumber Co
S. Main
McCrea
New Lumber Yard
Wayne New
Williamsburg
Mary Frances Marsh
S. Mulberry
Edwin Sargent Sheldon
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Charles Easterly
Ottawa Hardware Co
Washington
Truman
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Ray Q. Brewster
W.C. Coleman
Norwood L. Jones
Charles V. Stansell
Lena Hutchins
Ottawa High School Vocational Agriculture
Bob Dunn
George Miller
Sacred Heart Church
S. Cedar
Eugene F. Waley