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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1998
Page
6
The Ottawa University softball team ended ECAC play with a 21-9 record, placing second at Sterling and awaiting an at large NAIA Great Plains Regional bid. See page 7.
Rain is probable Tuesday with brisk cool conditions and a high in the mid to upper 50s. A northeast wind of 15 to 25 mph gusts. Rain chances about 70 percent. For more weather information, see page 2.
May 15 is the deadline for nominations for the Ottawa High School Wall of Honor. To be considered, nominees must be OHS graduates 10 or more years out. The Renaissance program runs the process with alumni review and student voting in June, with inductees announced in July and honored in October during homecoming festivities.
The Ottawa Board of Education will meet at 7 p.m. today at the board office. Items include traffic update around Lincoln Elementary, the 1998-1999 school calendar, resignations and hirings. An executive session will address a non elected personnel matter and employee negotiations.
Greenwood Township officials meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the kiall to discuss a request to alter fire boundary lines in the southwest part of Greenwood Township. Pomona and Williamsburg township officials and fire departments will attend. The meeting is open to the public.
County commissioners guided BG Consultants Inc of Manhattan through county buildings to assess space requirements for jail offices and storage. They toured the courthouse and former and current jail sites where renovations would need a new heating and cooling system for the entire complex due to the basement boiler serving all three structures.
Mayor Bill Wheeler announced bids will be set next month for a $700,000 sewer improvement project in Quenemo. Construction could start by mid June, funded by a low interest loan and a community development block grant. The plan adds a third lagoon cell to serve over 500 homes, up from 180, and raises the average monthly bill from about $13 to $19.50.
A March Bronx drug raid used a battering ram on the wrong apartment, frightening a grandmother and grandchild. The real target was the furthest left unit, while the mistaken address began at 948 Pons Court, Newbury Park, California, where work started at 949 Pons Court. The incident may lead to a major lawsuit as the Newbury Park family mulls options.
Herald staff reports at Peoples National Bank event as Rep Ralph Tanner and Rep Bill Feuerborn along with Sen Robert Tyson discuss the 1998 session. Tyson opposed the Clinton era plan citing a 43 million dollar annual price tag. Feuerborn and Tanner support expansion of children's health coverage. Abortion talks loom if Gov Graves vetoes tougher restrictions, with possible veto overrides debated. Tanner also pushes a property appraisal cap. Feuerborn and Tyson weigh in on voting intentions.
The Clinton administration asked the Supreme Court to uphold Congress in allowing a line item veto. Solicitor General Waxman said the 1996 law does not violate separation of powers, while justices questioned standing and potential legislating by a vetoed statute. Clinton used the veto 82 times last year before a federal judge struck the law as unconstitutional.
Pomona seventh grader Holly Higbie joined her father Michael at the 56th Waynoka rattlesnake festival to catch rattlers after Easter. They captured three snakes, two on the day, with Holly planning to skin and mount one. The family hunts rattlesnakes regularly, though Holly’s mother remains uneasy.
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