Community Public Events and Volunteer Opportunities
Saturday events include Habitat for Humanity work 8:30 to noon at 210 Powhattan and a second shift 9 to noon Monday. Pomona High cheerleaders Spirit Clinic at the high school 8:45 to noon. Prairie Flyers EAA at Highland Airport. Women’s time management seminar Living Out of Your Heart 10 to noon at Agape Center. Genealogical Society meeting 2 p.m. at Ransom Memorial Hospital. MLK program Keeping the Dream Alive 2 p.m. at Ottawa University Chapel. Public art reception for Ed Lammers 2 to 4 p.m. Carnegie Cultural Center. Monday MLK Day volunteer day 8 to 11 a.m. OU Chapel with lunch. Habitat for Humanity outside deck project 9 to noon. Ottawa Library Storytime 10 a.m. Many People One Nation. Kiwanis Pancake Day 11 to 1 and 5 to 7 at First Baptist Elliott Hall. Weigh Down orientation 6:30 p.m. First United Methodist Library. Sunflower Piecemakers Quilt Club 7 p.m. Elliott Hall. Franklin County Fair Board 7:30 p.m. Celebration Hall.
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Powhattan
Pomona High School
Susan Streeter
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Highland Airport
Tennessee Drive
Rantoul
Agape Christian Center
Marshall Road
Franklin County Genealogical Society
Ransom Memorial Hospital
Martin Luther King Jr
Ottawa University
Ed Lammers
Carnegie Cultural Center
Ottawa Library
Martin Luther King
Elliott Hall
First Baptist Church
Education & Health Committee
Chamber of Commerce
First United Methodist Church
East 4Th
Philippines says U.S. presence is limited and temporary
Manila rejects talk of a large scale U.S. intervention as 660 American troops join the Abu Sayyaf mission. Officials insist the goal is to train Filipino forces and observe combat operations, not to wage a full Afghanistan style campaign.
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Manila
Philippines
U.S
Abu Sayyaf
U.S. Army
Osama bin Laden
al- Qaida
Basilan
Kansas
Sam Brownback
Afghanistan
Abu Sayyaf Group
Wichita
Kan
Brownback
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ottawa and West Franklin School Menus Week Plan
The document lists school milk service and weekly meal menus for Ottawa Schools and West Franklin District. Breakfast and lunch entries run Monday through Friday with specified items such as soft taco, veal parmesan, chicken nuggets, chili, sushi? No. Items include pancakes, sausage patty, cinnamon roll, cheeseburger, corndog, pizza, and assorted sides like corn, potatoes, fruit, and vegetables.
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Ottawa
West Franklin
Would-be thief bashed with a cane after doughnut-robbery
In Fullerton California a would-be car thief who already had a waistband gun was surprised when a 58 year old woman pulled a cane from her trunk and began striking him. Police used hounds and a helicopter to pursue the suspect who eluded capture. The victim praised her boldness though an officer cautioned against such actions. The second brief reports in Bloomington Indiana a restaurant owner contemplates what to do with four goldfish living in the bathroom tub since 1979, a long standing quirky landmark of the Runcible Spoon culinary site.
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Fullerton
Calif
Steve Matson
Matson
Fish Bloomington
Ind
Runcible Spoon
Matt O’neill
Bosnian Arabs handed to U.S. forces in Bosnia
Six Algerians with suspected ties to Islamic militant groups were handed to U.S. authorities in Sarajevo after Bosnia's top court ordered their release for lack of evidence. They were held on U.S. intelligence and are expected to be moved to Guantanamo Bay.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
U.S
Naval
Rex Totty
U.S. European Command
Stuttgart
Germany
Algeria
Armed Islamic Group
Egypt
al-Gamaa al- Islamiya
United States
State Department
Lynn L. Cassel
Helsinki Committee For Human Rights
Galileo recovers to capture final Jupiter images
Galileo, NASA said, recovered from a computer glitch and will take at least some of the last planned images of its 13 year mission. The probe aimed to photograph Jupiter and moons Amalthea Europa and Io during a high resolution flyby before Sunday.
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Pasadena
Calif
Galileo
Jupiter
NASA
Amalthea
Europa
Solar System
Earth
Weekly school meals menu with milk included
Monday offers sausage gravy with mashed potatoes broccoli biscuits and pears. Tuesday serves Mr. Rib with potato salad green beans bun fruit chicken tetrazini mixed vegetables pineapple Sealand home roll tossed salad Terra Papened Joe potato salad broccoli Normandy bun cookie. Friday features sliced ham with sweet potatoes cranberry sauce corn homemade roll and pie.
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Mandy
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