Bulletin Board Legislative Coffee and Veterans Help
Legislative Coffee is Saturday at Peoples National Bank with Sen. Tyson Rep. Tanner and Rep. Feuerborn tentatively attending. Kansas veterans affairs staff meet Feb 6 and 20 at City Hall Library for free service, no appointment needed. call 785 843 5233 for details. Michigan Valley pancake feed at church 6:30 to 10:30 a.m. includes pancakes sausage eggs with free will donations to construction. Eagles Auxiliary ham and bean dinner 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday funds go to the American Diabetes Association.
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Ottawa Area
Veterans
Ottawa
Kansas Commission On Veterans’ Affairs
City Hall
S. Hickory
Michigan Valley
Michigan Valley Community Church
Eagles
Eagles Hall
American Diabetes Association
Graves seeks reaction to aquifer proposal
Gov Bill Graves moves to gauge Western Kansas response to a two pool concept for the Ogallala Aquifer. Public hearings planned in February and March with workshops in the western half of the state to test viability and gather grassroots feedback from local interests.
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Sarah Kessinger Harris
Topeka
Bill Graves
Ogallala
Kansas Water Office
al LeDoux
State Water Office
Graves
Bill Howgill
House Agriculture Committee
Howsgill
JoAnn Freeborn
R. Concordia
Water Office
Kansas Water Authority
Susan Stover
Kansas lawmakers push 45 million for gas bill aid
The Kansas House and Senate Utilities committees urged the Kansas Corporation Commission to tap up to 45 million dollars from federal settlements with gas producers to assist households not covered by current heating aid. Debate focused on equitable distribution and timing while the KCC would set how funds are distributed, likely via existing groups such as the Red Cross to reach households earning 130 percent to 300 percent of the federal poverty line.
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Topeka
House
Senate Utilities
Kansas Corporation Commission
Don Myers
R-Derby
Carl Krehbiel
Rmahudrige
House Utilities
Carl Dean Holmes
Holmes
KCC
Rosemary Foreman
The
Red Cross
Senate
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services
Hutchinson explosion claims second life
The January 18 natural gas explosion at Big Chief Mobile Home Park in Hutchinson led to a second death as Mary Ann Hahn 64 died at Via Christi St. Francis in Wichita. Her husband John Hahn 69 died the following day. Evacuation affected 191 homes and 43 businesses. Kansas Gas Service scaled back pressure and expanded gas checks citywide while drillers pursued vent wells near gas pockets. Authorities trace the leak to a gas field northwest of Hutchinson and emphasize ongoing testing of 160 caverns for leaks.
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Big Chief
Hutchinson
Mary Ann Hahn
Via Christi Regional Medical Center
St. Francis
Wichita
Dick Heitschmidt
John Hahn
Heitschmidt
KGS
Steve Johnson
Lay
Kansas Gas Service
Johnson
Oklahoma
Kansas
KCC official says disaster costs unlikely to hit gas bills
A Kansas Corporation Commission official stated that Kansas Gas Service is unlikely to pass disaster costs from Hutchinson's natural gas crisis onto customers. Non recurring expenses, such as lawsuit payments and evacuee reimbursements, are generally excluded from rates. The KCC maintains authority over energy delivery rates, though a two year moratorium limits changes to energy costs.
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Tchinson News
Kansas Corporation Commission
Kansas Gas Service
Hutchinson
KCC
Rosemary Foreman
Foreman
Commission
Ottawa Daily Hospital Notes and Sheriff Police roundup
Admissions include Christina Logan and others from Ottawa and Wellsville with multiple births noted in Ottawa. Dismissals list Sylvia McCurdy and Christina Logan among others. Births report two newborn sons to Erin Star and Ivy Michel, both Ottawas. Sheriff reports Tyrone Clayborne arrested on probation violation. police report several arrests for warrants with bond details. Thefts recount wheel and tire theft in the Walnut area. Accidents describe two vehicle incidents on Beech and Oregon Roads with one non fatal injury and one with damage. Ambulance calls list four medical emergencies on various streets.
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Christina Logan
Carrol Blakeman
Ottawa
Nayrea Reed
Wellsville
Erin Star
Ivy Michel
James Raby
Sylvia McCurdy
Williamsburg
Natalie Calcott
Osawatomie
Valerie Roberts
Blue Mound
Erin
Patrick Star
Kansas House backs six year renewal of Kansas Lottery
A House Federal and State Affairs panel voted 11 to 8 to renew the Kansas Lottery for six years, trimming the period to end July 1 2008. If not renewed the lottery would shut down on July 1 2002, with $60 million expected for the 2002 budget to fund prisons, development, education, and water conservation.
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Topeka
House
House Federal and State Affairs Committee
Doug Mays
R-Topeka
Mays
Senate
Nancey Harrington
Goddard
Dave Kerr
Hutchinson
House Committee
Rick Rehorn
Kansas City
Rehorn
Eco
Reborn
Lottery
Shawnee County
John Edmonds
Kansas
Ink.org
Kslottery
Agencies seek expanded Hispanic services in Missouri
area agencies push to extend into suburbs and rural Missouri to serve a growing Hispanic population. Guadalupe Center and El Centro seek satellite offices and more funding for English classes translators housing education health care and workforce needs amid rising Hispanic numbers projected by the 2000 Census.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Cris Medina
Guadalupe Center
Midwest
Tors
St. Joseph
Sedalia
Springfield
el Centro
Kan
Overland Park
Olathe
Johnson County
Richard Ruiz
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Hutchinson News
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17Th and
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Howard Street
Avenues E
Jackson Street
By Wes Johnson
Daily Report
Ivy
Dan Michel
Sheriff’s News
Tyrone Carl Clayborne
E. Wilson
S. Main
Franklin County
John Henry Wilson IV
Belton
W. 2Nd
Pamela J. Arvin
S. Cedar No. 3
Ryan C. Bowling
Reno Road
Beech
Clayton J. Turner
Princeton
Oregon Road
Turner
N. Main
S. Osage Dr
Thomas Road
Joplin
Great Bend
Mattie Rhodes
West Side
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