How Humidity Impacts Your Home This Summer
Humidity can make rooms feel sticky and unpleasant while harming structures. Excess moisture risks warped wood, peeled paint, and lingering odors, affecting homes and interior surfaces.
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 2006
Page
1
Humidity can make rooms feel sticky and unpleasant while harming structures. Excess moisture risks warped wood, peeled paint, and lingering odors, affecting homes and interior surfaces.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proposes a supermaid training program for domestic helpers. Led by Augusto Syjuco, the program includes first aid and high rise evacuation skills to boost safety and earnings for maids, part of a push to support workers abroad who remit billions yearly.
Canadian researchers led by Dr. Laurie J. Morrison of the University of Toronto say a test helps rescuers identify futile CPR cases. Advanced paramedics can stop efforts with doctor approval, but many basic responders in rural areas cannot, tying up ambulances and ERs.
Franklin County hosts a mix of events this weekend with the Lane Fair in Lane featuring a parade, greased pig contest and live entertainment, plus Ottawa’s Crystal Plaza movie theater reopening offering a night out in town. Lane hosts a horse show, three on three tournament and pie contest with dining, games, and livestock entries open to the public. Jason E Camis, director of the Franklin County CVB, promotes local hospitality and suggests RoadsideAmerica for road trip ideas.
At 7 p m Keep It Simple Alcoholics Anonymous meets in Franklin County Mental Health Center basement 204 E 15th St Ottawa. 7 p m Vietnam Veterans of America gathers in Ransom Memorial Hospital Conference Rooms A and B 1301 S Main St Ottawa. 7 p m ACT Ottawa meets at Carnegie Cultural Center 515 S Main St Ottawa. 8 p m Franklin County Conservation District Board meets at 107 E 23rd St Ottawa.
Tropical Storm Chris further weakens with top winds of 45 mph, moving west at 13 mph. Warnings downgraded as forecasters expect no strengthening. center sits about 315 miles east-southeast of Grand Turk and 135 miles north of San Juan. Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands watches are discontinued. Turks and Caicos and southeastern Bahamas remain under tropical storm watch. Forecaster Lixion Avila says conditions unlikely to allow intensification.
Ottawa events list a three day Lane Fair with a quilt show and carnival games. Act Ottawa performs Steel Magnolias at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Larry D. Peters Auditorium on the Ottawa University campus. Farmer's Market runs at Orscheln Farm & Home east of Cedar Street.
The Ottawa Herald calendar items highlight Lane Fair events from today through Saturday with exhibits parade music talent show carnival and quilt show at Burcham Park Lawrence. Bleeding Kansas Arts & Festival 2006 features Death Cab for Cutie and other indie bands at multiple venues. Also noted are a Friends of the Ottawa Library book sale at 209 East Second Street from 8 a.m. to noon and Lenni's contact for event submissions.
Herald listing by Lenni Giacin covers a Sun down Film Festival at Kansas State Historical Society with free exhibits, Bleeding Kansas Arts & Festival in Burcham Park, and The Ballad of Black Jack at Lawrence Arts Center Theater. Details include locations 6425 SW Sixth Ave Topeka and 940 New Hampshire Lawrence, dates August 10 11 12 13, ticket prices and reservations.
In Sumerville, DC, Patrick and Dana Smith left town after months of fighting with neighbor Jesse Gibbs over seven noisy cockatoos. A court warning for noise and a later dispute over videotaping children led to a neighborhood association letter and animal control involvement. Gibbs welcomed the end of the dispute.
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