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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 2004
Page
8
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The Richmond Public Library will close Thursday and Friday for carpet installation and again on March 2 for an Interlibrary Loan workshop, reopening March 3. Returns may be dropped in the blue box at Beachner Grain during closures.
A dense schedule lists multiple meetings and activities across Ottawa and nearby towns. Sessions include the City Commission work session at City Hall at 4 p.m., Board of Education tours at Hawthorne School, and a Wind of Freedom concert at Ottawa University Chapel. Evening happenings feature a Rotary chili meal, Tracks TALK at the Library, and a pasture management workshop at the county annex.
The Daily Report lists health facility dismissals and police arrests in Franklin County. Entries name individuals with ages and addresses, charges including probation violation domestic battery driving while intoxicated and weapons violations, plus bond amounts and release status. Separate theft reports note items stolen from various locations and times across Wellsville Williamsburg Lane and Williamsburg.
Wellsville residents and representatives from city government, faith groups, schools, nonprofits, and businesses pursued a Good to Great Awards 2 grant for youth programs but Wellsville was deemed ineligible. The group plans a Feb 26 meeting at Old Station Pizza to discuss locating an activity center, a coffee house, and other ideas while seeking alternative funding.
The state netted 526019 by selling 147 of 729 surplus vehicles at Forbes Field over two weeks. Average price paid was about 3500 for high mileage cars vans and trucks. Some vehicles were offered to nonprofits first before public sale and later auctioned to dealers.
Franklin County Commission will begin drafting a public nuisance ordinance at Wednesdays meeting. The proposal would authorize county officials to require mowing, trash pickup, removal of junk cars, and curb other neighbor-annoying practices to protect property values as rural areas urbanize.
Fort Riley sifts through a yearlong deployment as 53 soldiers from the 937th Engineer Group return first, part of an estimated 3,000 to come home over two months. Maj. Gen. Dennis Hardy saluted the unit, noting all returned alive amid 28 base fatalities and two more killed recently. About 6,800 Fort Riley soldiers serve in Iraq. 200 or more family members gathered at 6 a.m. to greet the returning troops.
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