OU volunteers plan Martin Luther King Jr. Day service
Ottawa University and the Ottawa Volunteer Center organize a community service day on January 21. Activities include a city food drive, veteran grave marker repairs, letters to soldiers, nursing home visits, a Mabee Center basketball tournament for grades 4-8, and a lunch. City officials and GOTCHA led the effort to strengthen university community ties.
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Ottawa University
Ottawa Volunteer Center
Martin Luther King Jr
Richard Jackson
David Laflin
University
Ottawa
Laflin
Seal
Hope House
Mabee Center
Mitchell
Ezra Sykes
Esykes
Otiawaherald.com
New Year's baby joins Yoder clan at Ransom Memorial
Carolyn and Alvin Yoder welcomed Jonathan David Yoder as Ottawa's first baby of 2002 at 10:13 am weighing 6 pounds 11 ounces. The Amish family from four miles west of Garnett said the birth of their sixth son was a blessed start to the year and will earn prizes from local merchants.
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Ren Bishop
Jonathan David Yoder
Garnett
Carolyn Yoder
Jonathan
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Alvin
David
Sylvia Yoder
Elden
Sarah Mae Kemp
Herald Stott
Carolyn
James
LaMar
Keith
Darren
Joshua
Regulators say sale may trigger premium hikes for Kansas
Kansas regulators warn the planned $190 million sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas to Anthem could cause significant premium increases on some policies. A state team led by Kathy Greenlee said justification exists to approve or reject, with a decision due within 30 days after the Jan. 7–9 hearing in Topeka.
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Lawrence
Kansas
Blue Cross and
Blue Shield of
Kansas Insurance Department
Kansas Insurance
Kathleen Sebelius
Anthem
Blue Cross
Sebelius
Kathy Greenlee
Insurance Department
Topeka
Quiet New Year Observed Across Franklin County
Franklin County and Ottawa police describe a very quiet New Year weekend with no major incidents. The Kansas holiday traffic toll rose to at least five deaths across several counties including Marysville and El Dorado, with several others injured from crashes on I 70, US 54, and local roads.
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Star and Wire
Franklin County
Craig Davis
Ron Puterbaugh
Ottawa
Kansas
Oo Diego Velasquez
Marysville
Graham School of Livestock Mends with Generations of Grahams
The Graham School for Livestock Men and Women, run on the 2,400 acre Graham family farm in east central Kansas, teaches artificial insemination and herd management to students from small operations to larger cattle ventures. Classes cost 695 dollars, span four days in classrooms and barns, and draw participants from diverse backgrounds including a teen from Langdon North Carolina and a Missouri warehouse worker building a herd.
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Carl Weathers
David T. Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
Kansas
Mary Graham
Frank B. Graham II
Gene Raymond
Kaleb Krahn
Langdon
N.C
Dan Petiit
Buffalo
Raymond
Pettit
Graham
Graham School
Petitt
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Kansas Highway Patrol
Kacy Fieser
Norwich
Kingman County
Fieser
Johnson County
Overland Park
Patricia K. Zander
Leon
U.S. 54
el Dorado
Patrick McMullen
Plainville
Rooks
Kansas Road
Times Square
Waterpool
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