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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 2000
Page
7
Tonight becomes partly cloudy with a low in the middle 40s. Thursday brings breezy and warmer conditions with a high of 75 to 80, partly sunny and a southwest wind of 15 to 25 mph. For more details, see page 2.
Construction crews raise thick concrete wall forms at the Ottawa Regional Cancer Center on 1402 S Main. Hi Plains Inc workers Mike Frack and Ron Stiffler assemble sections as walls will range from 3 feet 5 inches to 7 feet 8 inches and hold about 400 yards of concrete for housing radioactive materials.
The Old OMS Task Force endorses sending the Friends of Historic Buildings plan for a Franklin County Community Center to the Ottawa Board of Education. If approved, the group will seek a 1/4 cent sales tax, with 180 days to gather 793 signatures if the commission denies. The plan may transfer ownership to a nonprofit to run the center, separate from a city county joint facility project pending a vote.
Reid Trusson and his wife Janelle, representatives of the American Baptist Board of International Ministries, will speak at Ottawa University Chapel Service at 11 a.m. Thursday. The free event features their work with 50 Baptist unions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, based in Prague aiding churches, Sunday schools, teacher training, and pastor education as part of partnerships with Eastern European churches. Reid Trusson, a University of Minnesota and Fuller Theological Seminary graduate, formerly led Underwood Memorial Baptist in Wisconsin and traveled to the Soviet Union with American Baptist delegations. They are 1999 2000 missionaries in residence in Denver and visiting OU through the Norwood L. Jones Convocation Fund. Reid is also the featured speaker at OU Meeker Awards Banquet at Mowbray Union Friday night.
Cliff Burke, 69, Ottawa University alumnus, became Habitat for Humanity coordinator after a late 1960s spark on campus. The Franklin County program, started in 1993, has since built three homes, rehabilitated nine, and begun a fourth. Burke coordinates volunteers, secures tools, and supports homeowners who contribute 300 hours of sweat equity.
Kansas faces a potential rise in property taxes as state revenue shortfalls trim $7 million from three revenue sharing programs. Local officials warn that reduced funding shifts tax burden onto residents, with cities like Garden City and counties such as Ellis facing specific losses.
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