Local Optimist life member named and fraternity leaders elected
Dave Salisbury of Ottawa is honored as an Optimist International life member for dedication to youth and the Optimist creed. Other local recipients include Marty Buick Al Keefer Tom Love George Sell Ron Spencer Bob Thompson and Don Waymire. Kansas State students Chad Jackson and Tony Snethen from the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity hold leadership roles. Adam Pankratz of Lyndon High School wins a Harry Gore Scholarship to Wichita State University worth about 10000 dollars over four years. Pittsburg State University fall grads include Garnett Huettenmueller Karey Schulte Dustin Brites Briteshut Ramona K Martin and Randal Stoneking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave Salisbury
Ottawa
Optimist International
Salisbury
Marty Buick
al Keefer
Tom Love
George Sell
Ron Spencer
Bob Thompson
Don Waymire
Manhattan
Kansas State University
Lambda Chi Alpha
Chad Jackson
Tony Snethen
Lyndon
WSU
Adam Pankratz
Lyndon High School
Harry Gore
Wichita State University
Gore
PSU
Pittsburg State University
Garnett
Paul S. Huettenmueller
Karey L. Schulte
Dustin
Lane
Seien Briteshut
Ramona K Martin
Taster
Randal
Stoneking
KC mayor targets Dillard's over racial bias ruling
Mayor Emanuel Cleaver urged divestment from Dillard's following a $1.1 million verdict to Paula Hampton in Kansas City Kansas. Hampton, with her niece, was detained in a Dillard's shoplifting inquiry at Oak Park Mall. no theft evidence was found. Cleaver will push pension funds to avoid Dillard's stock amid claims of bigotry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City, Mo
Emanuel Cleaver
Dillard’s
Kan
Dillard's
Pers
Cleaver
Strategy session aims to boost voter confidence in Kansas
Lawmakers and citizens held a rare weekend strategy session at the Statehouse to discuss restoring trust in the electoral process. Rep. Kent Glasscock urged campaign finance reform by 1998, saying reform groups should target a few achievable proposals to regain public faith. Members included Rep. Lisa Benson, Rep. Robert Tomlinson, Rep. Gwen Welshimer, and groups like Common Cause and the League of Women Voters of Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPERA
Kan
Statehouse
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
Glasscock
House
Lisa Benson
Shawnee
Robert Tomlinson
Roeland Park
Gwen Welshimer
Wichita
Common Cause
The
League of Women Voters of
Kansas
United We Stand America
Reform Party
Kansas Alliance For Campaign Reform
Track dispute forces Wyandotte families to move
In western Wyandotte County 146 families face displacement for a 75,000 seat Kansas International Speedway project worth 252 million dollars. Residents received notices and a planned special meeting to discuss the final agreement amid mixed emotions and plans to relocate to new homes or other housing options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Wyandotte County
Rudy Franz
Libby Clyde
Kansas International Speedway
International Speedway Corp
Bob Creason
Creason
Hank
Franz
Pat
Bill Stewart
Bill Goble
Stewart
Publisher's Weekly Best Books 1997 Fiction Picks
The list highlights eight novels with reviews by Sybil Steinberg. Banville's The Untouchable follows Anthony Blunt as a Cambridge historian with a secret Soviet past. Busch's Girls centers on a security guard's grief and a missing teen. Deane's Reading in the Dark explores sectarian trauma in Northern Ireland through a boy's awakening. DeLillo's Underworld surveys postwar America from a vast, interwoven perspective. Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower traces Romantic obsession and tragedy. Frazier's Cold Mountain frames Civil War hardship and endurance. Johnson's Le Divorce offers Parisian irony and expatriate satire. Just's Echo House presents a political Behl family saga in Washington.
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Publisher
Sybil Steinberg
John Banville
Anthony Blunt
Britain
Cambridge
Banville
Frederick Busch
Upstate New York
Busch
Seamus Deane
Northern Ireland
Deane
Charles Frazier
Odysseus
Inman
North Carolina
Blue Ridge Mountains
Frazier
Diane Johnson
Paris
Johnson
Ward Just
Washington
Behl
Hospitals face uninsured toll as Medicare breaches rise
Public Citizen reports show 264 patients dumped from 256 hospitals between 1995 and 1996 amid stricter reporting. AHA notes hospitals write off 17.5 billion in 1996 for the uninsured while only 26 hospitals and eight doctors were fined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Hospital Association
Rick Wade
Public Citizen
Massachusetts
Ottawa area police and incidents summary from Friday to Sunday
Multiple arrests and dismissals are reported in Ottawa and nearby towns including DUI and driving on a suspended license arrests in Osawatomie Pomona and Edwardsville. Burglaries vandalism accidents ambulance calls and runaways are documented with names ages and locations, noting injuries and bonds where stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion James Caylor
Osawatomie
Ohio Road
Caylor
Linda Kay Hottman
S. Maple
W. Franklin
Pomona
Saline County
Sandra Lynn Toland
Edwardsville
Kansas Highway Patrol
Ance
Michael Howard Shuster
Jackson
Marshall Rods
Jeremy P. Woodall
Nicholas C. Griffin
Dundee
Damon D. Griffin
Donald B. Jones
East Seventh
David W. Kennedy
Meridian
North Main
Ottawa
Rocky L. Woods
Louisiana Road
S. Cedar
Lori K. Daugherty
N. Main
S. Main
Jim Poe
Lane
Locust
Danny Callahan
Willow
Edward Gunnels
Asa Smith
Jim Hotaling
Poplar
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Optimist
Om Miers
KCK
Don DeLillo
America
DeLillo
Bronx
Desert
Penelope Fitzgerald
Friedrich von Hardenberg
Fitzgerald
Rosemary
Judy Holtz
HHS Inspector General's Office
Holtz
the Daily Report
Mary Hopkins
Virginia Baker
Glenn Lancaster
Elgin Woodward
Edith Miller
Greeley
James Wynn
Pearl Nicewander
Louise Spillman
Quenemo
Jill Noble
Rantoul
Eldon Turner
Lucille Anderson
Princeton
Gary Freeman
Sheriff's News
Wellsville
S. Willow
James D. Reeves
Main
Alfred J. Grey
S. Cherry
Phillip Steinmeyer
Don Jansen
Baldwin
Main Street
Second
Angela Perryman
Osage Drive
Third Street
Eldon McCurdy
S. Locust
Jeremy Woodall
Walter Preston
South Poplar
North Mulberry
Subway
First United Methodist Church
E. 4Th
Dave and Gail
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