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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 2001
Page
1
Forecast calls for tonight to become cloudy with a chance of thunderstorms and potential heavy rainfall. A low around 70 is expected, with Thursday remaining cloudy and showing a thunderstorm chance and highs near 80 to 85.
Franklin County may raise the mill levy by 1,844 in the next year to fund elections and the County Highway Improvement Plan. Road and bridge funding could rise by about four mills while the bond and interest fund drops nearly three mills to balance overall taxes. A budget hearing is set for August 8 at the county annex.
A deer wandered into a construction area at 15th and Eisenhower and fell into a basement pit. Ottawa Police Lt Randy Allan said Animal Control could not reach it, so a Fish and Game officer covered the deer with a blanket, tranquilized it, and removed it from the pit.
Marklysaught of the U S Geological Survey places a plaque on the Old Depot Museum wall to note a high water mark of 9 feet 8 inches from the 1951 flood, with a related display open through August. The USGS will give a flood lecture at 7 p m tonight at Ransom Memorial Hospital. The Ottawa Herald runs a special flood section in Thursday editions.
Havens Steel will be honored with an OSHA Voluntary Protection Program award as part of a two year effort to improve employee safety. The Ottawa plant, among Kansas firms in VPP, will host a Friday barbecue with guests including State Sen. Robert Tyson.
U S Senator Sam Brownback plans to press Costa Rica's president Miguel Angel Rodriguez during a meeting this week to push for a faster, more thorough investigation into the May murder of Shannon Martin, a Kansas University student. The case drew criticism as DNA evidence and FBI cooperation were questioned and remains unsolved.
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