Richmond Free Fair opens with basketball tourney and street dance
Richmond prepares for the 69th annual Free Fair with a three on three basketball tournament and a street dance on Saturday to raise funds. Randy Rossman handles entries at 835 6102 as organizers target about 20 teams. The fair runs Sunday through Tuesday with livestock shows, parades, horse shows, games, and a boy and girl baby show concluding events and prize payouts.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
Richmond
Richmond Free Fair
Roy Edwards
Richmond Free Fair Association
Randy Rossman
Edwards
Preditor
Coffeyville
Cornelion
Big Valley
Garden City
FFA
Modern Music City Productions
Pomona Days festival lines up full weekend variety
Pomona Jaycees present Pomona Days at Pomona City Park with rides by Hamilton Amusements starting tonight. Saturday features an 8K run at 7 a.m., pony rides, craft booths, a western skit, a baby contest, parade at 6 p.m., and a free dance 8 p.m. to midnight. Registration fees range up to 12 dollars. call details listed for contests and prizes.
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Pomona
Pomona City Park
Pomona Jaycees
Hamilton Amusements of
Olathe
Mark Adell
Bloomin
Drake Jewel
Finance system unfair seen in phase two hearings
Four district lawsuits consolidated in Shawnee County District Court enter phase two of testimony led by Judge Maria Luckert. Whiting cites ongoing inequities as the state imposes a 32 mill levy and a $3600 per pupil budget for 1992 93, with districts allowed up to 25 percent additional local tax to fund special programs and disparities were to be reduced to equalize educational opportunity.
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Shawnee County
Maria Luckert
Whiting
Local youth completes astronaut camp at Cosmosphere
Matt Weber of Princeton recently finished the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere in Hutchinson. The five day camp for middle schoolers includes space flight simulations model rocket building astronomy in the planetarium and space program history lessons. Ten sessions with 400 students are planned this summer and information is available at 800 397 0330.
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Matt Weber
Gerard
Martha Weber
Princeton
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
Hutchinson
Kansas Cosmosphere
America
Friends of the Trail elects seven-member executive board
About 34 residents attended a Wednesday meeting in Garnett to form the Friends of the Trail and elect a seven member board. Co chairs are Loren Sayers and Connie Beckwith. A $25,000 pledge from the Goppert Foundation of Kansas City was announced to match funds raised.
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Garnett
Friends of the Trail Organization
Karen Carmack
Mike Murphy
Steve Robinson
Ken Weide
Robert Logan
Loren Sayers
Bush City
Connie Beckwith
Richmond
Beckwith
Sayers
Rick Doran
Gamnett
Goppert Foundation
Kansas City
Friends of the Trail
Goppert
Gamett State Savings Bank
Gamettt
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
Kansas Department of Transportation
Gannett
Doran
Wildlife and Parks Department
Welda
Rich Bailey
Wildscape
Wildlife and Parks
Internal Revenue Service
Ottawa Area Retired Teachers Breakfast Meeting
The Ottawa Area Retired Teachers Association will meet for breakfast at 8:30 a.m. Friday at Ottawa University Mowbray Union.
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Ottawa Area
Retired Teachers Association
Ottawa University Mowbray Union
Ad Briefs Road Grading Pepper's Friday and Saturday
The RUDE will perform at Pepper's on Friday and Saturday. WRINKLE-FREE Haggar cotton slacks have just arrived at Litwin's.
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the Rude
Pepper's
Litwin's
Sheriff officers guard street dances in county towns
Franklin County Sheriff Rex Bowling said deputies and sheriff reserves will provide security at two street dances Saturday night. The Richmond Free Fair Association sponsors a dance with Preditor and admission is 5 dollars. Pomona Jaycees host a Pomona park dance with The Cruisers, free admission.
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Diane Yeamans
Herald
Franklin County
Rex Bowling
Richmond Free Fair Association
Preditor
Pomona Jaycees
Pomona Park
the Cruisers
Richmond
Pomona
Richmond Fair
Kevin Kimball
Kimball
Sheriff’s Department
Roy Edwards
Richmond Fair Association
Edwards
Gayle McFarland
The
Jaycees
Ottawa Herald subscription rates list revised for 1993
The Ottawa Herald published new subscription rates effective January 1, 1993. Rates cover Ottawa carrier deliveries, rural routes, motor routes, and mail in Franklin and surrounding counties, with state and out-of-state options and advance payment terms. Names Peg Armstrong Virginia Howe Wayne Snow Jean Rossman appear in the billing context.
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Pene Ees
Peg Armstrong
Virginia Howe
Wayne Snow
Jean Rossman
Ottawa
Franklin
State of Kansas
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Wellsville
Johnson County Community College
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