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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 2004
Page
9
Readers may submit non commercial events to Ottawa Herald two days or more in advance by fax email or mail at 104 S Cedar Ottawa KS 66067. Public events open to the community are announced free of charge and phone inquiries are not accepted.
Habitat for Humanity of Franklin County will dedicate its latest home at 2 p.m. Sunday, 613 N Hickory St Ottawa. The event includes prayer, food, and family time as Renee VanderPol and her family prepare to move in. For details call Bobbi Van Horn or Ryan Henningsen. Williamsburg Area Historical Society to meet at Old Stone Church Museum annex. Pomona City Council set to discuss 2005 budget at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Pomona City Building.
Tonight Ottawa hosts a Brady Family medical benefit hamburger feed and rain gutter boat race at the Elks Lodge. David Wooge's Music Box Show plays at the Ottawa Municipal Auditorium. Saturday features the Franklin County Fair with a Farmers Market at Town and Country Supply and a Brady benefit music marathon at Mulligans. Public events include a Hot Dogs For Jesus concert at the Nazarene, a Cruise Night at Advance Auto Parts, a 4 H/FFA Livestock Sale, a VFW dance, and Habitat for Humanity work at 613 N Hickory Street.
The Daily Report lists admissions for Lonna Myers and Bradley Wantland in Ottawa and dismissals for Jocelyn Hiles. Franklin County Jail reports multiple arrests including Melinda Lear for providing tobacco to minors, Christina Cedroski for tobacco charges, William Romig for rape, Waylon Boileau for battery, Brian Gragg for DWI and related offenses, and Michael Yeager for failure to appear, with bonds set or releases noted. Sheriff's incidents note burglary/theft on Pawnee Road and various non injury accidents and ambulance calls across multiple blocks and streets.
The Ottawa City Planning Commission recommended three special use permits and a rezoning Wednesday night. The city has yet to determine when the city commission will consider the permits and rezonings. ABC 123 Learning Center at 1250 Commercial Road seeks a special use permit to expand by 3,744 square feet to 5,494 total, with a larger parking lot and outdoor play area. The permit would require city sewer connection rather than a holding tank. Dengel & Son Mortuary seeks a special use permit to operate a crematory at 211 E. 3rd.
The commission backs expansion of ABC 123 Learning Center and permits for a crematory at Dengel and Son, plus storage of funeral equipment in a C-2 district. It also considers rezoning west of King Street to single family, and a spot rezoning at 719 E Wilson Street to R-2. Planters elected Cal Lantis as chairman and Blake Jorgensen as vice chairman.
Federal judge dismisses the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma claim to 1 920 acres of prime industrial property in downtown Kansas City Kansas City Kan. The suit is deemed time barred and should have run before a federal land ownership commission in the 1940s and 1950s. Officials cheer the ruling amid years of title clouding for residents and businesses including General Motors and Owens Corning. The tribe sought land or compensation claiming parcels were misassigned after treaties in 1855.
Red Hat Society members toured Kansas City after visiting Liberty Memorial for Flag Day. Each member bought gifts for residents and one resident spoke of sleeping with a new bunny. Calliham hoped the group would return next year as Village West staff praised the new faces and conversations.
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