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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 2005
Page
7
Daily bulletin board announces two day lead time for items by fax email or mail. Non commercial events open to the public may be announced at no charge. No phone calls please.
The Prairie Flyers Experimental Aviation Association chapter will inspect a home built Long EZ at 9 a.m. Saturday at Ottawa Municipal Airport if weather cooperates. Steven Wilhoite plans to fly his Long EZ from Paola to Ottawa and will discuss building and flying the plane. The public is invited.
Pomona High School hosts an annual spirit clinic for preschool through eighth grade this Saturday morning. Registration opens at 8:45 a.m. and ends at noon, with a chance to perform at the January 25 basketball game. Clinic cost is $5, shirts $8, certificates and souvenirs included. Call Susan Zentz at the high school to register.
A Hamilton County notices a day of Martin Luther King events and nightly gatherings at Franklin County Diabetes Group Ransom Memorial Hospital and other venues. Activities include La Leche League meetings, quilt club, film, library story times, pancake feed, PATH exercise, Kiwanis meals, and Masonic sessions.
Saturday admissions include Sharon Reeder, Helen Bunch, Alvina Ingram. dismissals Friday list Shirley Hicks, Ruth Peine and son, with Saturday entries for Janis Foster and Dale Gordon. Jail arrests include Donald Poage II on battery, Ronald Spencer on criminal damage, Joseph Hicks on warrant, Angelique Lamberd on warrant, and Monica Wells on theft. Each arrestee released or held as indicated.
A soldier writes from Mosul that redeployment is near with an expected return to Kuwait and then home in March. He notes base strain from election activity, ongoing attacks on convoys, and casualties, but reports progress on packing, unit rotations, and support from Ottawa High School and Sacred Heart. The entry details weather, morale, and a somber briefing after a combat loss.
Scot Brownrigg, 36, sworn in as Anderson County sheriff. He outlines aims to boost accountability, professionalism, accessibility and community service, increase presence in USD 365 and USD 479 Crest districts, add a school resource officer, and keep DARE work through Undersheriff Max Skelton. Brownrigg, a lifelong resident and Garnett High graduate, previously taught social sciences and served as deputy and police officer before winning the Democratic nomination and then the office.
Edna Browning Hough Gossett died in 1977 and was a nurse at Santa Fe Hospital southwest of the railroad overpass in north Ottawa. Trained in Illinois, she made house calls and oversaw admissions and linen while her husband Dr. Edward B. Gossett led the hospital through its early decades. The Gossetts served Ottawa from 1901 through the early 1920s.
King Day observance highlighted community service as Ottawa University and city leaders urged people to do good. Richard Jackson noted the theme This should be a day off but a day on and announced student essay winners from Lincoln Sacred Heart Appanoose and Ottawa High School across grade bands.
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