No VFW Bingo This Week Amid Holidays
Bulletin notes that there will be no VFW bingo games this week due to holidays. Bingo will resume at the post on January 3.
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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 2001
Page
8
Bulletin notes that there will be no VFW bingo games this week due to holidays. Bingo will resume at the post on January 3.
Admissions include Katherine Allan Evelyn Stapp Dorothy Stoneking Ida Hughes Vivian Lott Sut ton and Jon Alterman in Ottawa with several dismissals and transfers to Overland Park Regional. Police reports list arrests of Overturf Calderon Breedlove Argin and Baker on warrants and charges plus multiple thefts, vandalism, injuries and non injury vehicle incidents. Ambulance calls document numerous medical emergencies across Ottawa over two days.
Kansas City International Airport saw a 15.2 percent drop in November passenger traffic from 2000 to 856,454, continuing a three month decline after the Sept. 11 hijackings. October and November combined produce about a 2 percent dip for 2001, despite Thanksgiving travel.
A blaze that started in a pump barn spread to a nearby home near Pomona, causing about 1600 dollars in damage to the barn and its frozen meat. Forrest Allen reported two portable heaters were placed in the barn after a water pump froze, and the Pomona Fire Department contained the fire before sheriff's officers arrived. The total loss to the home was not estimated at report time.
Roeland Park's Jim and Nancy Petersen, Johnson County's oldest foster parents, plan to retire after caring for about 400 children over nearly three decades. The couple, now 74 and 70, fear they are no longer the right fit for their three current sisters as they prepare to expire their licenses and let younger caregivers take over.
Sam Wescott seven years old yawns as he sings a carol with his mother Theresa during the final Christmas Mass at Church of the Magdalen in Wichita. The 1968 building will be razed to clear space for the US 400 highway expansion bisecting Wichita, and the congregation plans a new northeast Wichita facility.
Swedish visitor Alf Bror Brorson visiting Lindsborg on his ninth trip since 1993 says the town preserves Swedish culture, music, and rituals forgotten in his home region. He will present on the city's history while exploring how Lindsborg shapes his own heritage alongside insights from local scholars.
The last downtown Olathe church holds eight stained glass windows bought in 1926 for 1650 dollars from Jacoby Art Glass. The symbolic designs depict 75 Christian events from birth to Resurrection, with uncertain origins possibly German or Austrian. The windows educate and comfort parishioners, changing with the sun at different seasons.
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