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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 2003
Page
1
A local student earns notice for impressive web design projects. The article highlights creative skills and potential in the field, with references to ongoing work and future opportunities within the tech community.
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About 35 Ottawa area officials rode a bus to El Dorado to inspect the city’s new YMCA center, aquatic facility, and civic complex. They evaluated El Dorado’s progress and listed Ottawa priorities including a civic center, consolidated schools, Main Street funding, and a unified marketing plan.
Ottawa and El Dorado share county seats near interstate corridors and metro areas. El Dorado offers advantages including state prison inmate labor, philanthropy, an 8000 acre lake, and a 1991 opened correctional facility with 461 staff. Hospital and college facilities, and local economic development funding show contrasting community priorities and tax rates.
Analysis highlights reuse of existing buildings, hiring a county administrator and encouraging volunteers. The El Dorado YMCA opened a 43000 square foot facility a year ago with a weight room gym racquetball courts pool hot tub sauna track nursery and meeting room. City funds 1.5 million plus bonds and sales tax backed total 5.7 million with private gifts and five corporate donors each giving 500,000 including the hospital.
Dan Fogle and Fogle Rentals filed in Franklin County District Court seeking an injunction to stop an electrical substation slated for an 80 acre southeast Ottawa site near Highland Cemetery. He alleges improper zoning steps and a high power line crossing his property, which he plans to develop housing on, while the city says the protest petition was invalid and the suit seeks temporary halt pending a public vote.
The Ottawa City Commission rejected boosting funding for Main Street but did not reduce it, leaving the annual $30,000 contribution for 2004 intact pending a final budget review. Blaine Finch, Main Street board member, urged higher city support.
Pomona Lake officials urge camping but emphasize safety as Fourth of July crowds grow. Prime sites remain, with a national reservation system allowing two day advance booking. Two recent Pomona Lake accidents included severe burns from improper campfire use and prompted warnings to wear life jackets around water and supervise children closely.
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