Heart by Heart connects OMS girls with seniors through quilts
About 25 Ottawa Middle School Girls Club members and seven women completed a six week Heart by Heart program making quilt blocks sewing pillows lap robes and small quilts. The intergenerational project will offer a computer session where OMS students teach adults over 60 to use the computer and Internet. For more information contact Marcia Mitchell at 242-7200. Ottawa High School guidance site is live at ottawahigh.net guidance with college and scholarship info and ohscounselor yahoo.com for email.
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Mary Ellen Wood
Chelsea Swafford
Lana Bowyer
Ottawa
OMS
Heart By Heart
Marcia Mitchell
OHS
Ottawa High School
Ottawahigh.net
Ohscounselor
Yahoo.com
Parking officer begins downtown enforcement in Ottawa
Ottawa police prepare a new traffic enforcement officer to ticket vehicles violating downtown parking rules, including those extending into South Main traffic. Training delays first tickets, while hours remain flexible. Sidewalk parking will be ticketed. long vehicles that overhang lines may be cited. Extra parking available on side streets and behind Main Street lots.
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South Main
Jeff Herrman
Herrman
Ottawa City Commission
Pomona Days Seeks Entrants for July Celebration
Organizers of Pomona Days plan July 7 to 9 in Pomona with parade arts and crafts booths food booths and entertainment. Call Lisa Bookover at 566-3489 to sign up for carnival hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and parade at 6 p.m. Saturday. Events include three-on-three basketball tournament fun run community breakfast morning service and community pot luck supper to close.
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Pomona
Lisa Bookover
Man accused of striking woman after domestic dispute near Ottawa
A 55-year-old man, Arthur Gale Mitchell, is jailed on suspicion of aggravated battery and related charges after his pickup hit a 45-year-old woman, Pam Crable, as she exited during a domestic dispute along U S 59 north of Ottawa. Crable was treated and released. Mitchell was arrested in Ottawa about 3 a.m. A second man, Albert Lee Toumberlin, was arrested on obstruction charges and released on bond.
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Ottawa
U.S. 59
Arthur Gale Mitchell
Reno Road
Franklin County
Pam Crabl
Mitchell
Crable
Ransom Memorial Hospital
North Main
N. Main
Albert Lee Toumberlin
Toumberlin
Hickory
Norbert Lee Forst
Kentucky Road
Benjamin Joseph Gore Holland
S. Burrough
Stafford
Louisiana
Labette Terrace
Po! News
Four arrested in Friday drug raid on 800 block of South Cherry
Four people were arrested and a small amount of marijuana plus drug paraphernalia were seized after a drug raid Friday in the 800 block of South Cherry. Kerry Jo Eads, 20, Erik Matthew Ward, 20, Richard Derringer, 17, and Tiffany Marie Bailey, 18, were detained on misdemeanor possession of marijuana and paraphernalia charges, then released. Ward, Eads, and Derringer were taken from the residence during a search warrant around 6 p.m. Bailey was detained in a vehicle about half a block north. all but Eads were residents of the address. Mike Hatheway of the Drug Enforcement Unit noted the raid followed a long-term investigation into alleged activity at 842 Cherry.
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South Cherry
Kerry Jo Eads
Erik Matthew Ward
Richard Derringer
Tiffany Marie Bailey
Mike Hatheway
Drug Enforcement Unit
Cherry
Ward
Eads
Dertinger
Bailey
Death leads to discovery of Stengel baseballs
In Prairie Village the death of Dolores Sanders revealed a stash of signed baseballs once owned by Casey Stengel. Attorneys contended for two years over the estate and sale proceeds while relatives from Denmark and Kansas City joined the effort. The case settled with the baseballs passing to another generation.
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Stengel
Prairie Village
Joe DiMaggio
Yogi Berra
Mickey Mantle
Hank Bauer
Whitey Ford
New York Yankee
Hey
Nathan Sutton
Casey Stengel
Kansas City
Grant
Irene
Dolores Sanders
Dolores
Denmark
Sutton
Johnson County
Charles Dillon Stengel
Lawmakers debate KPERS funding and school vouchers plan
At a legislative forum Tyson Feuerborn and Tanner discussed KPERS funding, opposing tapping retirement reserves and vouchers. They argued for private funding changes and rejected voucher expansion, while open records and lobbyist regulation drew limited support and satire about a pork pie gift.
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KPERS
Tyson
Feuerborn
Tanner
Kent Glasscock
Manhattan
Graves
Ottawa hospital notes and sheriffs arrests roundup
Admissions include Lionel Sutton James A Moore II and Gladys Ledom with others listed for Ottawa. Discharges noted and a birth to Gina and Patrick Brannan. Sheriff's arrests cover Norbert Forst and Benjamin Gore Holland for domestic battery and open container/open driving violations, plus theft and DUI in Ottawa area. Police reports show numerous incidents, accidents, and public-safety calls in Ottawa County through the weekend.
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Lionel. Sutton
James A. Moore II
Gladys Ledom
Ail
Ottawa
Oleta Dennison
Gina Brannan
David Reekie
Pam Crable
Alice (Feather) Kaiser
Ason
Gina
Patrick Brannan
Sheriff’s News
Obituary notices partial listing Riemer Cronin Randell Sr.
OBITS Continued from page 1 lists relatives for Carl L. Riemer and Robert Eugene Cronin plus King Randell Sr. Deaths include Michael Eugene Riemer, Robert Eugene Cronin of Mission, and King Randell Sr. of Topeka. Burial details, services, and memorial contributions are noted with local funeral homes and veterans groups.
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Alma Jeanne Cronin
Timothy Cronin
Ottawa
Paula Weber
Merriam
Betty Freund
Shirley Longley
Stacy Jeanette Cronin
Resurrection Cemetery
Mission
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Senate
Dick) Bond
Bond
Overland Park
Sen. Bond
Daily Report
Jamie M. Morsett
N. Cherry
Police Department
Carol
Schmalz
Louisiana Terrace
Ottawa Co-op
Dustin J. Earnest
N. Cedar
South Ash
Craig Hamilton Lamberd
Rhonda K. Fritts
Vassar
C & R Walkman
S. Cedar
Douglas Marvin Sommer
Lawrence
Fast Wilson
East Second
South Burrough
Leavenworth
Wal-Mart Supercenter
S. Princeton
Juanita Neave
Shelly R. Wilson
Vinita
Okla
Neave
Dillon Jave
Dezerne N. Rude
Burlington
Ninth and
Cedar
Patricia A. Jensen
Hickory Apt
Jensen
Florida
Charles Mayfield
Osage City
Cassandra Snow
Chelsea Snow
Rmh
Tracy L. Chambers
Osage Drive
Country Mart
S. Princeton Circle Drive
Franklin County Day Care & Preschool
Hidden Meadow Apartments
S. Hickory
South Princeton
Salance
Edgewood Drive
Wellsville
East Ninth Mobile Home Community
S. Lincoln
McDonald’s
Casey's General Store
Main
Ninth and Elm
Michael Eugene Riemer
August C
Max J
Gary W. Riemer
Dengel & Son
Highland Cemetery
Veteran of Foreign Wars Memorial
Robert Eugene Cronin
Robert Eugene Gyonin
St. Pius X Catholic Church
American Heart Association
Ames Family Chapel
Shawnee
King Randell SR
Topeka
Colmery-O’neill V.A. Hospital
Lamb-Roberts-Heise Funeral Home
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