Foster grandparents join Wellsville Elementary reading program
Frances Shay of Wellsville becomes the first foster grandparent in the KIN Intergenerational Network at Wellsville Elementary School. Grandparents work four hours daily with students needing reading help, earning a $2.45 hourly stipend and lunch. Also noted is Knights of Columbus donating $218.76 to COF Services from a Tootsie Roll drive for wheelchair programs.
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Shay
Wellsville
Frances Shay
KIN
East Central Kansas Area Agency On Aging
Donna Cruse
Cruse
Knights of Columbus
Cof
John Scott
the Sacred Heart
Ottawa
Coffey-Osage-Franklin
Parenting class makes a difference in Sedgwick County
Mitch, father of three, completes a 16 hour DCCCA family preservation course and pledges to provide food, shelter, and resources. Social workers applaud as he receives a handmade certificate. DCCCA offers parenting classes, child care, transport, housing aid, and sometimes utility help to keep children at home.
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Schita
Kan
Mitch
Christopher
Erin
Dad
Jing Redfern
Mommy
Daddy
DCCCA
Sedgwick County
Douglas County
Redfern
Pawnee
Seneca
Sion
Susan Krogmann
Oil for Food renewal eyed by U.N. Council this week
The 15 member Security Council weighs renewing the oil for food program set to expire Thursday. It allows Iraq to sell 2.14 billion dollars of oil every six months, with two thirds funding food and medicine and the rest compensating Kuwait and paying for U.N. oversight. U.N. and Iraqi officials say results are lacking as inspectors encounter angry crowds in Baghdad over shortages. Annan urges reexamination and potential revenue increases to meet humanitarian needs amid malnutrition concerns showing 960,000 Iraqi children under five affected.
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Iraq
U.N
Baghdad
Security Council
Annan
U.N. Children’s Fund
Inmate Sumner Identified After Attempted Death at Jail
23 year old Corey Paul Sumner, jailed on charges of attempted first degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm, slashed his wrists with eyeglasses in a jail cell and was moved to a mental hospital after being treated at Ransom Memorial Hospital. He allegedly tried to kill his estranged wife at Sirloin Stockade on August 26. Sumner’s lawyer argues mental incompetence and bipolar disorder.
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Corey Paul Sumner
Sumner
Franklin County District Court
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Kansas City
Sheriff's Department
Alvin Keith Lott
Sirloin Stockade
Jim Rumsey
Sirlein Stockade
Rumsey
Clarissa D. Burgoon
James L. Mietchen
Wellsville
Michael C. Browning
S. Orchard
Alan J. Mader
Baldwin
Sean Patrick Tuer
North Sycamore
Patrick John Proctor
Willow
South Cedar
Jennifer Lynn Calderon
Lawrence
South Mulberry
Kan
Franklin County
Nine year old firefighter devotee earns honorary chief
In Kansas City Missouri nine year old John Stimpson whose severe asthma spurred a firefighting fascination has toured all 33 fire stations. Firefighters praise his knowledge of equipment past and future and he was named honorary chief by Assistant Fire Chief Tom Walker after meeting his idol.
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Lafansas City
John Stimpson
Kansas City
Dave Stockman
John
Stockman
Kay
Jerry
Jerry Stimpson
Station 10
Tom Walker
Walker
Fire damages north side home in Ottawa
A Sunday fire blamed on careless disposal of smoking materials caused about 40 000 in damage to the Gary R Crane residence at 1145 N Cherry Ottawa. Firefighters were sent at 4 34 p m to contain the blaze in the living room with the rest of the house receiving smoke and heat damage. The department returned at 8 18 p m for a smoldering couch in the front yard after removing it from the home.
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Ottawa
N. Cherry
Gary R. Crane
Stolen Ottawa car burns in Lawrence
A stolen 1988 Plymouth belonging to Trinity Guyett was found burning in a parking lot in the 1500 block of Tennessee. Police suspect arson after the interior was heavily damaged. car valued at about $3,000. Authorities responded at 3:55 a.m. Friday following a report of a vehicle fire.
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Lawrence
Ottawa
Trinity Guyett
S. Cherry
Tennessee
Daily Report adds for Admissions DIBELLO HIBDON MILLER
The report lists admissions for Sharon DiBello Richmond Julie Hibdon Princeton Edith Miller Greeley and other Friday Saturday and Sunday events noting births arrests and a wide range of incidents. It covers a birth to Julie and Darren Hibdon a Saturday, several arrests including Dorey Casey Potter and Burgoon, gun seizures at 910 Jackson Road, a vehicle fire on Walnut Street and a 1991 Jeep collision near Town and Country Supply with injuries and hospital treatment.
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Sharon DiBello
Richmond
Julie Hibdon
Princeton
Edith Miller
Greeley
Francis Weers
Williamsburg
Celia Wichman
Herbert Dowdy
Ottawa
Robert Berry
Katheran Webster
Julie
Darren Hibdon
Robert A. West
Boonville
Janna L. LaMar
S. Walnut
Town & Country Supply
S. Princeton
Jennifer L. LaMar
Ransom Memorial Hospital
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Adam J. Song Hak
Vassar
Tive Te
Kiewit Inte
Chi
Pat
Norma Robinson
Emporia High School
Westphalia
Prairie Chicken Camper Club
Ella Mae Shilling
Garnett
Greg
Susan Shilling
Mary Sue Cox
Sherwood Inn
Jennifer Comes
Roy the Wiel
Saddam Hussein
Blake Spurney
Herald
Richard Carper
Amtrak
Raton
N.M
Raton Pass
Albuquerque
Amarillo
Texas
Lamy
la Junta
Kansas
Chicaon
the Daily Report
Sheriff's News
Joseph Paul Dorey
O'Fallon
le Loup
I-35
Carol E. Casey
Jackson Road
Police News
Jimmy L. Johnson Jr
Kurtis A. Hodges
Greenwood Drive
South Main
Jason Lee Potter
S. Main
Kermit J. Graika
Graika
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