Ottawa arts and music weekend events highlight choir and theater
Ottawa hosts KU Medical Center Inspirational Choir at 7 30 p m at the Municipal Auditorium with youth choir also performing. Tickets 750 950 adults students half price children 4 to 12 free. Other events include art shows, McGruff club meeting, Juggler Bryan Wendling performance, Main Street Opry, Lawrence concerts, Prairie Wind Dancers, Wynton Marsalis at Lied Center, KU Theatre for Young People, and Topeka racing indoors with various classes. Proceeds benefit El Salvador friendship committee.
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Ransom Memorial Hospital
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Ottawa Library
Oma
Bryan Wendling
Burlington
Christy Teter
J.D. Weers
Williamsburg
Main Street Opry
Prairie Wind Dancers
Lawrence Arts Center
Wynton Marsalis
University of Kansas
Plans approve per student Kids at Risk funds for local use
House and Senate panels back a plan granting about 3902.25 dollars per student at risk. Kids at Risk, a federal program aiding low income children, shares eligibility factors with free lunch programs but funds are not for lunches. Ottawa and other districts may expand or pool to support alternative schools, focusing on aiding students beyond regular schooling while renaming the program.
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Ottawa
West Franklin
Wellsville
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Gang Forum At Bethany Chapel Sunday Broadcast By KOFO
Public invited to a 2 p.m. Sunday forum on gangs drugs and juvenile crime at Bethany Chapel Baptist Church 1355 Poplar. Speakers include Larry Roland a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper and Donna Bell Koch Crime Commission program director. Co sponsored by the church and Ottawa Black Awareness Committee.
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Poplar
Larry Roland
Kansas Highway Patrol
Donna Bell
The
Koch Crime Commission
Church
Ottawa
Sun
Donna Bell Koch
Discovery Day At Ottawa University Draws Local Students
Ottawa University hosts Discovery Day inviting senior high students and parents to campus. Nearly 200 visitors will sample classes at 11 and 11:30, tour at 12:30, audition for music and theatre at 1, and visit the Faculty Fair. Evening events include basketball vs Kansas Wesleyan and a coffeehouse featuring Ali LeRoi.
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Ottawa +4 University
Martin Hall
Kansas Wesleyan
Kansas Collegiate Athletic
Ottawa Middle School hosts bond forum on Feb 22
The Ottawa School district PTA sponsors a bond issue forum at 7 p.m. February 22 in the OMS multi purpose room. Cindy Wilson and Superintendent Don Duncan will participate along with school board members Bud Gollier and the district aims to build a new middle school near the high school and an elementary school on the current site. Improvements are proposed for Lincoln Eisenhower Garfield Hawthorne and Eugene Field. the latter two would close.
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Parent- Teacher’ Association
OMS
Cindy Wilson
PTA
Don Duncan
Bud Gollier
Lincoln
Eisenhower
Garfield
Hawthorne
Eugene Field Guld
Heights school board to discuss six classroom addition
The Central Heights school board will reconvene Monday at 7 p.m. to review plans for a freestanding six classroom addition connected to the elementary building by a covered walkway. The project avoids a bond issue, using capital outlay funds or a lease purchase, and could be completed by next fall with future expansion potential.
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Central Heights
June Betz
Betz
Ottawa board to hear North Central report at meeting
Ottawa Board of Education will convene at 7 p m on Monday with a report on Ottawa High School North Central accreditation. The session will recess for about 30 minutes to discuss a past copy machine lease litigation, then resume at 7 30 p m. Superintendent Don Duncan notes the report’s importance to school improvement and accreditation. He will discuss timetables for the election and notices for a $19.2 million bond proposal to be voted on April 4.
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Ottawa High School
Don Duncan
North Central
West Franklin Board Opens Meeting With Bond Update
West Franklin Board of Education plans a 7 30 p m meeting at the Education Center to hear district construction updates and vote on several policies including gangs and gang paraphernalia. The agenda also covers an accelerated reading report, a waiver of the eight semester graduation requirement, and high school English curriculum book discussions.
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West Franklin Board of Education
West Franklin
Jim Cain
Ottawa Herald Subscription Rates 1994 Displayed
The Ottawa Herald lists updated delivery and mail rates effective October 1 1994. Rates cover Ottawa carrier service rural routes motor routes mail in Franklin Miami Douglas Osage and Anderson counties and statewide mailings with varying monthly quarterly semiannual and annual prices and all include state sales tax.
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Tonight's Forecast Cold with Light Snow After Midnight
Tonight much colder with a 20 percent chance of light snow after midnight and a low of 10 to 15. North wind about 10 mph. Sunday cold with a snow chance mainly central and west. Lows near 10 below northwest to 5 above southeast. Highs 10 to 15. Monday snow chances statewide with single digit lows in the northwest to near 10 above southeast. Highs 10 above northwest to lower 20s southeast. Tuesday warmer with a snow chance in the east. Lows single digits, highs upper teens northwest to near 30 southeast.
Ottawa students join Puerto Rico workshop and concert
Ottawa University students travel to San Juan for Presidents Day workshop with local teachers. They will perform with Puerto Rican students, snorkel in the Caribbean, and attend a concert by local violinists and a single cellist Eric Johnson on February 16 at Canovanas First Baptist Church.
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Lewis
Eric Johnson
First Baptist Church
Canovanas
Ottawa University
ABC
Ottawa
Southeast Kansas officials to gather for county meeting
Franklin County hosts the Southeast Kansas County Officials Association annual meeting on Thursday March 16 with 250 to 300 officials from 17 counties. Attendees include county commissioners clerks treasurers and other officials. A luncheon at the Franklin County annex in Ottawa features emcee Lou Atherton Rev Paul Winkler invocation and possible remarks by Gov. Bill Graves. Entertainment by Kelley Bethel and Ottawa High Band, door prizes offered, followed by a brief business session.
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Southeast Kansas County Officials Association
Juanita Lucas-Zeek
Register of Deeds
Franklin
County
Ottawa
Chamber of Commerce
Lou Atherton
Paul Winkler
Bill Graves
Kelley Bethel
Williamsburg High School
Association
Appanoose Chili Supper and Carnival and Local Events
Community listings note a Chili Supper and Carnival on Saturday February 11 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Bethany Chapel Baptist Church with a program on gangs and youth prevention. Other items include a Valentine dance at Ottawa High School, a Love Line deadline, and various local business promos and services.
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