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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1997
Page
6
Johnny Damon spent time reviewing his hitting stroke on video while fans watched Sunday as Kansas City beat the opposition. The report notes a partly sunny Tuesday with a high in the lower 60s and winds 10 to 20 mph from the southwest turning northwest.
The Ottawa University women’s softball team hosts Family Night with a doubleheader against Tabor at Forest Park at 5 p.m. Admission is free for parents with a child. A meet and autograph session follows between games. A youth softball workshop runs 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday for grades 2 to 8.
Bobbie Bryan Stroud, once named Kansas football coach of the year, received 43 months in prison after pleading no contest to sexual abuse involving seven girls. He was fired from Louisburg High School after being found with a 16-year-old girl in a dim gym. District Judge Stephen Hill rejected leniency and seized his teaching certificate amid an $8 million lawsuit against Stroud and officials.
Tax offices prepare for one of the year's biggest days as the deadline nears on Tuesday. Ottawa workers expect a surge, with about 40 percent of state taxpayers still filing and teleTax and paperless returns growing. More lines and longer waits anticipated as refunds arrive earlier for electronic filers.
The Democratic Party urged the incoming Clinton administration in 1992 to consider a list of Democratic fund-raisers for posts such as ambassador, federal judge or IRS commissioner. The 13 pages of donors, dubbed must considers, were part of more than 10,000 pages released about fund-raiser John Huang, tied to foreign or improper donations. Huang appeared on a memo dated December 21, 1992 to Michael Wheuley, recommended for a sub-Cabinet Commerce post.
At a Saturday legislative coffee, area lawmakers weighed the merits of local-option budgets amid district budget strains. Rep. Ralph Tanner and Sen. Robert Tyson oppose broader LOB use while Rep. Feuerborn supports a one year extension. The House would phase down LOBs by 1999 2000, the Senate would let them stay at 100 percent without further votes.
Kansas privatized its child adoption system on October 1, transferring 799 waiting children to Lutheran Social Services. The program, first in the nation, aims to speed placements with a statewide network of non profit subcontracts while facing challenges placing teens and children with severe needs. The plan charges LS with full adoption responsibility and tracks payments aligned to referral, placement, and finalization milestones.
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