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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 2001
Page
6
Weather notes show a 20 percent thunder storm risk tonight with lows in the lower 70s. Tuesday promises sun and heat with highs in the upper 90s and a southwest wind of 15 to 25 mph. Tuesday night stays mostly clear with overnight lows in the lower 70s.
The Ottawa Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 1212 Willow Lane hosts a free family preparedness fair Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm. Experts will help with resumes, job searches, interviews, first aid, auto maintenance, disaster prep, and family history. attendees may come any time and stay as long as they like.
Monsanto Co sues Corona farmer Bill Schuler for saving and replanting harvested soybeans grown from Roundup Ready seeds. Schuler bought 900 bags in 1998 and says he was told he could not sell saved seed, not that he could not plant it. Federal suit in Aberdeen seeks damages. previous similar case yielded 2.1 million for Monsanto.
Ottawa Veterans Day Committee invites veterans, military vehicles, youth and community groups, and Civil War groups to join the Nov 10 all day celebration. Last year nearly 100 entries paraded. re enactors, war displays, and food vendors are sought for Forest Park and Ottawa City Library along with the Marine Corps Ball marking the Corps 226th birthday. Call Harold Mayes or Sherry Wright after 6 pm for details.
The FBI intensified efforts to locate cancer patients who received watered down chemotherapy from Robert R. Courtney, the Kansas City pharmacist. Court documents claim he admitted diluting Gemzar and Taxol for profit, with agents contacting physicians and reviewing seized records as a detention hearing loomed.
In Orlando on Little Lake Conway Edna Wilks, 14, was pulled under by an alligator and escaped as friend Amanda Valance, also 14, stayed behind to pull her to shore. Edna endured arm injuries, surgery, and blood transfusions while praising Amanda as her hero for keeping her from drowning.
Dozier Winery owners Bruce and Nina Dozier farm 48 acres in Barton County near Ellinwood. Since 1997 they turned a backyard grape project into Kansas eighth licensed winery with 3,000 bottles produced after 1998 planting and early crop setback. Guests visit the tasting room in a 1910 Santa Fe depot and enjoy white, red, semi-sweet and semi-dry wines, plus two apple varieties, amid farm trails and woods. The couple joke about a ghost called The Bride, while deer are deterred by a wine-drower dog. The Kansas wine scene revives with 160 members in the state association.
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