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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 2000
Page
8
Central Heights enrollment for elementary and secondary students will run 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday correcting a prior item. Book rental is 10 dollars for kindergarten and 20 dollars for other grades. Lunch costs are 1 dollar for K to 6 and 1.50 dollars for 7 to 12. A garage and bake sale will be held Thursday in the lunch room.
Ottawa records Friday admissions including Janifer Dorsey and others from Richmond and Greeley. Dorsey transferred to Olathe Medical Center. Births report a daughter to Crystal Cole in Quenemo. Multiple arrests and thefts listed with ages, addresses, charges, and outcomes. Two vehicle collisions noted with injuries, and two ambulance calls for medical emergencies.
Joy Powell says autopsy results for Jeremy Jake Powell, killed in a Friday night head-on collision on K-68, will take weeks. Powell notes her son had a good heart, was buried Monday, and recalls a white-haired man who comforted her son’s hand and spoke of life being precious. She invites contact with the mystery stranger.
An explosion leveled a house in southeast Emporia injuring no one reported. Residents Steven and Lisa Tye were accounted for along with their two sons. The blast at 9:58 a.m. damaged adjacent homes and shattered neighboring windows as Steven Tye’s job at Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant was noted.
Steven Kent Bloom, 53, was sentenced to life with a minimum 10 years after a jury found him guilty of intentional second degree murder in the October 14 1998 death of Deanna F. Porter 40. Bloom maintained the shooting was an accident during a night of drinking and drug use. Porter left three children a mother and six siblings.
Singer Gordon Lightfoot will perform in Salina on August 24 at the Bicentennial Center, with Pam Johnson in the audience hoping he adds The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Her father Robert Rafferty, cook on the Edmund Fitzgerald, died with 28 others when the ship sank on November 10, 1975 near Whitefish Point, Michigan. Johnson, then 23 and pregnant, watched as the tragedy reshaped her life and inspired Lightfoot’s famous ballad.
At the convention floor a satellite speech from Westerville, Ohio, kept Bush in the spotlight as polls show a national lead over Gore. Powell floated for a cabinet post while Democrats attack. Laura Bush impressed delegates as McCain, Ford, and Reagan tributes punctuated a unity night with Dole and Rice among speakers.
Hays Daily News reports higher natural gas bills this winter though exact amounts are uncertain. Midwest Energy spokesman Bob Helm notes market forces and weather will shape costs, with bills possibly doubling if a cold winter returns, while delivery charges stay fixed.
Allegations link two concurrent lawsuits against USD 457 over mistreatment of special education students. A July 17 claim by Grant Griffiths for Andrew B. Green and parents from Elk City seeks 4.5 million dollars. The earlier May 11 suit by Robert Ledesma, through his parents Zeke and Alice Ledesma, also accuses neglect and abuse at Garden City schools and names several district officials.
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