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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 2003
Page
6
Tonight and Tuesday Weather Forecast
Tonight will be very warm and partly cloudy with a 20 percent storm chance and a low near 73. Tuesday will be hot and partly cloudy with a high near 101. Weather page 10.
Heat wave could push Ottawa to record electricity use
Ottawa residents face a hot week with temperatures near 100 and a potential new peak in electricity demand. City utility director Jim Bradley notes current use around 34 megawatts per day, with backups from Kansas City and Grand River utilities and a new 10 megawatt Stag steam generator starting up to meet peak loads. The city plans water conservation talks but expects no major cuts unless Pomona and Melvern lakes drop to 85 percent of conservation pools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleon Rickel
Ottawa
Jim Bradley
Bradley
Kansas City Board of Public Utilities
Grand River Dam Authority
Oklahoma
City
City Commission
City Hall
Pomona Lake
Melvern Lake
Marais Des
First business day after blackout runs smoothly
Albany AP reports commuters crowded trains and roads as power plants return online. NERC says grid operating reliably with all but one transmission line in service. Con Edison urges conservation as eight states recover. NYC subways and buses running on schedule. Detroit roads clear. Ontario asks for 50 percent power reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N.Y
North American Electric Reliability Council
New York
Consolidated Edison
Joy Faber
Subway
New York City
Michael Bloomberg
NY1
Grand Central Terminal
Jonathan Greenman
Detroit
Canada
Ontario
NERC
New USD 290 faculty join Ottawa schools for 2003 04 year
The Ottawa school district welcomes 13 new staff across elementary, middle, and high schools. New faces include Fonda Rose at Ottawa Middle School and Ron Alford as district school psychologist, among others such as Don Brown teaching business at Ottawa High and Brent Kampfe joining as vice principal and language arts teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Fonda Rose
Baldwin City
Rose
Emporia State University
Emporia
Village Elementary
Ron Alford
Lawrence
Alford
Wamego
Lyndon
Hutchinson
Jewell
Don Neil Brown
Olathe
Ottawa High School
Brown
Bahamas
OHS
Cynthia Harness
Harness
USD 290
Pomona
Brent Kaempfe
Osawatomie
Baker University
Mark Grosdidier
Eudora
Ottawa Middle School
Grosdidier
St. Mary College
Leavenworth
Lawrence Public
Army shoots journalist in Iraq amid misidentified camera
In Baghdad the Army said a television journalist was fatally shot after soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket launcher. Saboteurs attacked oil pipelines and water supply as U.S. forces faced new resistance. A mortars incident at a Baghdad prison wounded about 60 Iraqis and killed six. Reuters photographer Mazen Dana, 41, was killed while filming near the prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baghdad
Iraq
Turkey
United States
Reuters
Mazen Dana
U.S
Mazen
Dana
Munzer Abbas
Abbas
Central Command
Set
Maj
Lewis Matson
Stephen Jukes
Global
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Business Daily Report
Andy Gassaway
Washburn University
Kampfe
State Department of Education
Melinda McAlexander
Princeton
Eisenhower
McAlexander
Ottawa University
Kansas City
Larry Meyer
Meyer
ESU
University of Kansas
DeSoto
Catherine Naden
Wichita State University
Naden
Kimberly Richmiller
Mission
Richmiller
Shawnee Mission
Kan
Cynthia Rutledge
Tola
Holy Angels Catholic School
Garnett
Tammara Hayward
Shawnee
Hayward
Kansas Rehabilitation Hospital
Topeka
Northeast Kansas Educational Service Center
Lecompton
Theresa Wiggins
Wiggins
Lincoln Elementary
Brent
Cynthia Rute
Fonda Adams
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