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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2005
Page
1
A compact roundup presents Annie's Mailbox urging couples to keep marriage lively, Heloise offers potato and vinegar usage tips, and light notes cover Snoopy writing and musings on dogs' superiority on land sea sky and space.
Atlanta tourism officials pitched a $92 million plan to win the NASCAR hall of fame before about 15 executives. The city faces rivals Charlotte Daytona Beach Kansas City and Richmond in the race to host the project and boost the local economy.
Michael J. Everhart reports Kansas once lay under water as midwestern seas covered the state in the Late Cretaceous. The book traces how successive oceans left a sedimentary record in the Great Plains and explains the land’s eventual rise above sea level.
Opinions and editorials rage as local grant funding aims to bolster law enforcement against domestic violence. Rich Lowry criticizes Cindy Sheehan, while John Walburn highlights Benjamin Franklin’s early focus on exercise and diet. An editorial cartoon questions gasoline as a military recruiting bonus.
25 years ago today the former Zimmer man nursing home at 534 S Cedar St was purchased by Attorney and Mrs Robert A Anderson who will live there with their four children. The house, built by A M Blair an early Ottawan, dates to just before 1890 and later housed A C Battelle of the Ottawa Car Shops before being occupied by the Temple of Health. Local obituaries list Loren Agee Charlie Burns James Baker.
Local roller hockey enthusiasts gathered to win the Lenexa league championship as the Kansas City Royals approached a historic futility mark with a 43rd consecutive loss to Seattle.
An Ottawa brief announces a VFW dance to be held August 20 from 8 to 11 p.m. with country music, plus a JCPenney catalog desk offer giving free shipping on $50+ and a Cedar Street detour near the Ottawa Herald parking lot during reconstruction.
A witty critique of long meetings highlights common personas. The Digressor derails with irrelevant anecdotes while the Clown mocks objectives. The Expert hogs time with thin expertise, Gumby elongates rounds, and the agenda keeper rushes to adjournment before the next century.
A Lawrence lawn concert opens the family friendly event with a festival featuring arts, prizes, balloons, and face painting. Ottawa offers a bluegrass jam session at The Potter's Wheel, a farmer's market, a library toddler time, a ribbon cutting for Transitions Counseling Center, and a play at Ottawa Municipal Auditorium. The Lied Center lawn hosts Sisters Morales at 7 p.m., preceded by a garden courtyard festival and kid activities.
A dense listing of community events across Ottawa includes noon Rotary Club gathering at the Ottawa Country Club and a joint government luncheon at Franklin County Jail. Evening items feature public hearings at City Hall and the Franklin County Courthouse, plus meetings from Kiwanis to the Car Club and the Recreation Commission. Dozens of local venues and times noted.
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